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Embelia ribes, commonly known as false black pepper, white-flowered embelia, viḍaṅga (Sanskrit: विडङ्ग), vaividang, vai vidang, or vavding [1] is a species in the family Primulaceae. It was originally described by Nicolaas Laurens Burman in his 1768 publication Flora Indica . [ 2 ]
Embelia is a genus of climbing shrubs once placed in the family Myrsinaceae, [1] which is now included in the Primulaceae. [2] There are about 130 species which occur in tropical and subtropical areas across a wide range including Africa and Madagascar and from eastern Asia to the Pacific Islands as well as Australia including: [ 1 ]
The "Star gooseberry", meaning either: Phyllanthus acidus , the "Otaheite gooseberry", the only Phyllanthoideae with edible fruit, or Sauropus androgynus , a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable
Embelin (2,5-dihydroxy-3-undecyl-1,4-benzoquinone) is a naturally occurring para-benzoquinone isolated from dried berries of Embelia ribes plants. [1] [2] Several studies have reported antidiabetic activity of embelin. [3]
This list of Ribes species shows many of the approximately 200 accepted species in the plant genus Ribes, the single genus in the Saxifragales family Grossulariaceae. [1] Traditionally, these have been divided into a number of subgenera , such as subgenus Ribes (currants) and subgenus Grossularia (gooseberries).
Ribes (/ ˈ r aɪ b iː z /) [5] is a genus of about 200 known species of flowering plants, most of them native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. [2] The species may be known as various kinds of currants, such as redcurrants, blackcurrants, and whitecurrants, or as gooseberries, and some are cultivated for their edible fruit or as ornamental plants.
Embelia ruminata, also known by the common name bitter leaf, is a species from the genus Embelia. [1] References This page was last edited on 8 December 2023, at ...
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