Adenia

See also: adenia and -adenia

Translingual

Adenia glauca

Etymology

From Arabic [script needed] (aden, “probably Adenia venenata”) +‎ -ia

Proper noun

Adenia f

A taxonomic genus within the family Passifloraceae – flowering plants in the passionflower family, found in Southeast Asia and tropical and subtropical Africa.
- 1993, Discovery and Innovation - Volume 5 (in English), page 113:
  From the literature, the work on Adenia species has been centred on its toxicity and the mode of poisoning of the identified toxic components.
- 1996, Hans Dieter Neuwinger, African Ethnobotany: Poisons and Drugs (in English), →ISBN:
  In recent years, very potent toxic proteins have been isolated from Adenia species. Astonishingly, up to now only two members of the Passifloraceae are known as hunting poisons; both belong to the genus Adenia: A. lobata in west Africa and A. volkensii in east Africa.
- 2007, Klaus Kubitzki, The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Volume IX (in English), →ISBN, page 272:
  The stylodia of Adenia are grooved and the pollen tube conducting tissue is on the surface of the ventral slit.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I, COM clade - clades; Malpighiales - order; Passifloraceae - family

Hyponyms

(genus): Adenia venenata - type species

Further reading

Adenia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Adenia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Adenia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Adenia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Adenia at Germplasm Resources Information Network
Adenia at Tropicos

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