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Mitrephora alba is a species of flowering plant in the family Annonaceae. It is a tree native to central and southern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia. Henry Nicholas Ridley, the English botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its white (albus in Latin) flowers.
It has been observed growing in evergreen moist forests at elevations of 0 to 70 meters (230 ft).
Bioactive diterpenes extracted from its branches have been reported to have moderate cytotoxic activity in test with cultured human lung cancer cells.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mitrephora alba 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.
