Miliusa is a genus of plants in family Annonaceae. Species have been recorded from tropical and subtropical Asia to northern Australia.[1]

Miliusa
Miliusa velutina
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Subfamily: Malmeoideae
Tribe: Miliuseae
Genus: Miliusa
Lesch. ex A.DC.
Synonyms

Hyalostemma Wall. ex Meisn.
Saccopetalum Benn.

Accepted species

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Miliusa dioeca
 
Miliusa tomentosa
 
Miliusa paithalmalayana

Plants of the World Online currently includes:[1]

  1. Miliusa amplexicaulis Ridl.
  2. Miliusa andamanica (King) Finet & Gagnep.
  3. Miliusa astiana Chaowasku & Kessler
  4. Miliusa baillonii Pierre
  5. Miliusa balansae Finet & Gagnep.[2][3]
  6. Miliusa banghoiensis Jovet-Ast
  7. Miliusa brahei (F.Muell.) Jessup
  8. Miliusa butonensis Chaowasku & Kessler
  9. Miliusa cambodgensis Chaowasku & Kessler
  10. Miliusa campanulata Pierre
  11. Miliusa chantaburiana Damth. & Chaowasku
  12. Miliusa codonantha Chaowasku - India
  13. Miliusa cuneata Craib
  14. Miliusa dioeca (Roxb.) Chaowasku & Kessler
  15. Miliusa eupoda (Miq.) I.M.Turner
  16. Miliusa filipes Ridl.
  17. Miliusa flaviviridis N.V.Page, Poti & K.Ravik.
  18. Miliusa fragrans Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand[4]
  19. Miliusa fusca Pierre
  20. Miliusa glandulifera C.E.C.Fisch.
  21. Miliusa glochidioides Hand.-Mazz.
  22. Miliusa gokhalaei Ratheesh, Sujanapal, Anil Kumar & Sivad. - India
  23. Miliusa hirsuta Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand
  24. Miliusa horsfieldii (Benn.) Baill. ex Pierre
  25. Miliusa indica Lesch. ex A.DC.
  26. Miliusa intermedia Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand
  27. Miliusa koolsii (Kosterm.) J.Sinclair
  28. Miliusa lanceolata Chaowasku & Kessler
  29. Miliusa macrocarpa Hook.f. & Thomson
  30. Miliusa macropoda Miq.[5]
  31. Miliusa majestatis Damth., Sinbumr. & Chaowasku
  32. Miliusa malnadensis N.V.Page & Nerlekar
  33. Miliusa manickamiana Murugan
  34. Miliusa mollis Pierre
  35. Miliusa montana Gardner ex Hook.f. & Thomson
  36. Miliusa nakhonsiana Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand
  37. Miliusa nilagirica Bedd.
  38. Miliusa ninhbinhensis Chaowasku & Kessler
  39. Miliusa novoguineensis Mols & Kessler
  40. Miliusa paithalmalayana Josekutty
  41. Miliusa parviflora Ridl.
  42. Miliusa pumila Chaowasku - Thailand [6]
  43. Miliusa saccata C.E.C.Fisch.
  44. Miliusa sahyadrica G.Rajkumar, Alister, Nazarudeen & Pandur.
  45. Miliusa sclerocarpa (A.DC.) Kurz
  46. Miliusa sessilis Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand
  47. Miliusa tenuistipitata W.T.Wang
  48. Miliusa thailandica Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand
  49. Miliusa thorelii Finet & Gagnep.
  50. Miliusa tirunelvelica Murugan, Manickam, Sundaresan & Jothi
  51. Miliusa tomentosa (Roxb.) Finet & Gagnep.
  52. Miliusa traceyi Jessup
  53. Miliusa tristis Kurz
  54. Miliusa umpangensis Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand
  55. Miliusa velutina (DC.) Hook.f. & Thomson
  56. Miliusa vidalii J.Sinclair
  57. Miliusa viridiflora Chaowasku & Kessler
  58. Miliusa wayanadica Sujanapal, Ratheesh & Sasidh.
  59. Miliusa wightiana Hook.f. & Thomson
  60. Miliusa zeylanica Gardner ex Hook.f. & Thomson

Unresolved species

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  • Miliusa sinensis Finet & Gagnep is a possible synonym of M. balansae Finet & Gagnep. Miliusanes, a class of cytotoxic agents, were extracted from M. sinensis. They are potential anticancer lead molecules.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b Plants of the World Online: Miliusa Lesch. ex A.DC. (retrieved 16 May 2021)
  2. ^ Kamperdick, Christine (December 2002). "Constituents from Miliusa balansae (Annonaceae)". Phytochemistry. 61 (8): 991–994. Bibcode:2002PChem..61..991K. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(02)00374-6. PMID 12453532.
  3. ^ Huong, DT; Kamperdick, C; Sung, TV (2004). "Homogentisic Acid Derivatives from Miliusa balansae". Journal of Natural Products. 67 (3): 445–447. doi:10.1021/np030195z. PMID 15043427.
  4. ^ Chaowasku, Tanawat (2013). "Seven new species of Miliusa(Annonaceae) from Thailand". Nordic Journal of Botany. 31 (6): 680–699. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2012.01785.x. S2CID 83625731.
  5. ^ "Miliusa macropoda".
  6. ^ "Species New to Science: [Botany • 2014] Miliusa pumila | ระฆังน้ำพราย • A New Species (Annonaceae) from southern Thailand". 2015-01-10.
  7. ^ Zhang, HJ; Ma, C; Nguyen, VH; Nguyen, MC; Tan, GT; Santarsiero, BD; Mesecar, AD; Soejarto, DD; Pezzuto, JM; Fong, HH (Jan 2006). "Miliusanes, a class of cytotoxic agents from Miliusa sinensis". J Med Chem. 49 (2): 693–708. doi:10.1021/jm0509492. PMID 16420055.
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