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Mitrephora heyneana
Mitrephora heyneana is a species of flowering plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to southwestern India and Sri Lanka. Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Thomson, the British botanists who first formally described the species under the basionym Orophea heyneana, named it after Benjamin Heyne a German botanist who collected and described many plant species from India.
It has been observed growing in rocky forests, at elevations of 200 to 450 meters (660 to 1,480 ft).
The bioactive molecule betulin extracted from its bark has been shown to inhibit the growth of cultured human tumor cells.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mitrephora heyneana 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.
