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Genus of flowering plants
Apocynum , commonly known as dogbane
[2] or Indian hemp ,
[2] is a small
genus of the flowering plant family
Apocynaceae . Its name comes from
Ancient Greek
ἀπόκυνον apókunon , from
ἀπο- apo- "away" and
κύων kúōn "dog",
[3] referring to dogbane (
Cionura erecta ),
[4] which was used to poison dogs.
[5] The genus is native to
North America , temperate
Asia , and southeastern
Europe .
[1]
[6]
[7]
Apocynum species are used as food plants by the
larvae of some
Lepidoptera species, including the
mouse moth and the
queen butterfly .
Uses
Apocynum cannabinum is used as a source of fiber by
Native Americans .
Apocynum venetum (
Chinese : 羅布麻 ) is used as an
herbal tea in
China .
[8] Dogbane contains
cymarin , a
cardiotonic agent formerly used to treat
cardiac arrhythmia in humans.
[9]
Species
Almost 300 names have been proposed in the genus for species, subspecies, and forms.
[1] As of 2019
[update] , only the following five species and hybrids are currently recognized, with several subspecies and varieties accepted for
A. androsaemifolium and
A. venetum (see their respective species pages).
[10]
References
^
a
b
c
"Apocynum " .
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) .
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved May 21, 2014 .
^
a
b
English Names for Korean Native Plants (PDF) . Pocheon:
Korea National Arboretum . 2015. p. 517.
ISBN
978-89-97450-98-5 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2016 – via
Korea Forest Service .
^
http://www.co.jefferson.co.us/coopext/plantdetail.do?sna=Apocynum+androsaemifolium&image=0
Archived 2011-07-27 at the
Wayback Machine Colorado Plant Database
^
ἀπόκυνον in
Liddell, Henry George ;
Scott, Robert (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon , revised and augmented throughout by
Jones, Sir Henry Stuart , with the assistance of McKenzie, Roderick. Oxford: Clarendon Press. In the
Perseus Digital Library , Tufts University.
^ Dempster, Lauramay T. (1993).
"Apocynum " . In Hickman, James C. (ed.). The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California . University and Jepson Herbaria.
^ Li, Bingtao; Leeuwenberg, Antony J. M.; Middleton, David J.
"Apocynum " . Flora of China . Vol. 16 – via eFloras.org,
Missouri Botanical Garden , St. Louis, MO &
Harvard University Herbaria , Cambridge, MA.
^
"Apocynum " . County-level distribution maps from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA) . Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2013.
^ Xiong, Q; Fan, W; Tezuka, Y; Adnyana, IK; Stampoulis, P; Hattori, M; Namba, T; Kadota, S (2000). "Hepatoprotective effect of Apocynum venetum and its active constituents". Planta Med . 66 (2): 127–33.
doi :
10.1055/s-2000-11135 .
PMID
10763585 .
S2CID
25960011 .
^
National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Cymarine
^
"Apocynum L." Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. Retrieved 17 June 2019 .
External links
Media related to
Apocynum at Wikimedia Commons