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Millettia
Sign in to saveMillettia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It consists of about 169 species of shrubs, lianas or trees, which are native to tropical and subtropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, southern China, Malesia, and New Guinea. Typical habitats include tropical rain forest and seasonally-dry lowland and upland forest and forest margins, woodland, thicket, wooded grassland, and secondary vegetation.
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Vinony's link graph records 85 inbound references to Millettia, and connects out to International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, Pongamia and China.
Vinony files it under Fabaceae genera, Millettia and Paleotropical flora.
Vinony links it to 21 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Chinese wisteria
Genus
- PhylumForaminifera
- ClassNodosariata
- OrderPolymorphinida
- FamilyGlandulinidae
Millettia es un género de foraminífero bentónico de la familia Millettiidae, de la superfamilia Buliminoidea, del suborden Buliminina y del orden Buliminida. Su especie tipo es Sangrina tessellata. Su rango cronoestratigráfico abarca el Holoceno.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,205
- With media
- 973
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- NY, US, NHMUK, A
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Tanzania, Myanmar, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Burundi, Gabon
Research
430 papers- Millettia isoflavonoids: a comprehensive review of structural diversity, extraction, isolation, and pharmacological properties.Phytochemistry reviews : proceedings of the Phytochemical Society of Europe · 2023
- A review on genus Millettia: Traditional uses, phytochemicals and pharmacological activities.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2020
- Millettia speciosa and By-Products: A Comprehensive Review of Chemical Composition, Bioactivities, Safety, and Industrial Applications.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
- Karanjin.Phytochemistry · 2021
- Cytotoxicity of isoflavones from Millettia dura.Natural product research · 2021
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Millettieae
- Image
- PongamiaPinnataGall.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Millettia
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- Millettia
- taxon common name
- 鸡血藤属
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- Etymology
- Uses
- Species
- References
Millettia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It consists of about 169 species of shrubs, lianas or trees, which are native to tropical and subtropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, southern China, Malesia, and New Guinea. Typical habitats include tropical rain forest and seasonally-dry lowland and upland forest and forest margins, woodland, thicket, wooded grassland, and secondary vegetation.
== Description == In 1834, in Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis Robert Wight and George Arnott Walker-Arnott describe Millettia as:
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