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Warburgia
Genus of flowering plants / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Warburgia is a genus of plant in family Canellaceae described as a genus in 1895.[2] It was named for the German botanist Otto Warburg.[3] It is native to eastern and southern Africa.[1]
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Foliage and flowers of W. salutaris | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Magnoliids |
Order: | Canellales |
Family: | Canellaceae |
Genus: | Warburgia Engl. |
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All four species have medicinal uses.[4] Extracts of Warburgia ugandensis have been reported to show some antimalarial properties in animal models.[5][6]
- Species[1]
- Warburgia elongata Verdc. - Tanzania
- Warburgia salutaris (Bertol.f.) Chiov. - Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
- Warburgia stuhlmannii Engl. - Tanzania, Kenya
- Warburgia ugandensis Sprague - Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zaire, Ethiopia to Malawi