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Goniothalamus griffithii

Goniothalamus griffithii
Photo: The image is from a work by George King entitled "Anonaceae of British India", the image itself is attributed to being d, Public domain
Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
Andaman Is., S. Myanmar to Thailand
Climate
wet tropical

About

Goniothalamus griffithii is a species of flowering plant in the family Annonaceae. It is a shrub or tree native to the Andaman Islands, southern Myanmar, and Thailand. Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Thomson the British botanists who first formally described the species, named it in honor of William Griffith, another British botanist who collected the specimen they examined.

Uses

Bioactive molecules isolated from its roots have been reported to have cytotoxic activity in tests with cultured human cancer cells.

Other Goniothalamus plants

Goniothalamus acehensis · Goniothalamus amuyon · Goniothalamus aurantiacus · China pine · Goniothalamus calvicarpus · Goniothalamus calycinus · Goniothalamus chartaceus · Goniothalamus cheliensis · Goniothalamus chinensis · Goniothalamus curtisii · Goniothalamus dewildei · Goniothalamus elegans

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Goniothalamus griffithii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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