Miliusa

Miliusa is a genus of plants in family Annonaceae. Species have been recorded from tropical and subtropical Asia to northern Australia.^[1]

Miliusa
Miliusa velutina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Magnoliids
Order:	Magnoliales
Family:	Annonaceae
Subfamily:	Malmeoideae
Tribe:	Miliuseae
Genus:	Miliusa Lesch. ex A.DC.
Synonyms
Hyalostemma Wall. ex Meisn. Saccopetalum Benn.

Accepted species

Miliusa dioeca

Miliusa tomentosa

Miliusa paithalmalayana

Plants of the World Online currently includes:^[1]

1. Miliusa amplexicaulis Ridl.
2. Miliusa andamanica (King) Finet & Gagnep.
3. Miliusa astiana Chaowasku & Kessler
4. Miliusa baillonii Pierre
5. Miliusa balansae Finet & Gagnep.^[2][3]
6. Miliusa banghoiensis Jovet-Ast
7. Miliusa brahei (F.Muell.) Jessup
8. Miliusa butonensis Chaowasku & Kessler
9. Miliusa cambodgensis Chaowasku & Kessler
10. Miliusa campanulata Pierre
11. Miliusa chantaburiana Damth. & Chaowasku
12. Miliusa codonantha Chaowasku - India
13. Miliusa cuneata Craib
14. Miliusa dioeca (Roxb.) Chaowasku & Kessler
15. Miliusa eupoda (Miq.) I.M.Turner
16. Miliusa filipes Ridl.
17. Miliusa flaviviridis N.V.Page, Poti & K.Ravik.
18. Miliusa fragrans Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand^[4]
19. Miliusa fusca Pierre
20. Miliusa glandulifera C.E.C.Fisch.
21. Miliusa glochidioides Hand.-Mazz.
22. Miliusa gokhalaei Ratheesh, Sujanapal, Anil Kumar & Sivad. - India
23. Miliusa hirsuta Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand
24. Miliusa horsfieldii (Benn.) Baill. ex Pierre
25. Miliusa indica Lesch. ex A.DC.
26. Miliusa intermedia Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand
27. Miliusa koolsii (Kosterm.) J.Sinclair
28. Miliusa lanceolata Chaowasku & Kessler
29. Miliusa macrocarpa Hook.f. & Thomson
30. Miliusa macropoda Miq.^[5]
31. Miliusa majestatis Damth., Sinbumr. & Chaowasku
32. Miliusa malnadensis N.V.Page & Nerlekar
33. Miliusa manickamiana Murugan
34. Miliusa mollis Pierre
35. Miliusa montana Gardner ex Hook.f. & Thomson
36. Miliusa nakhonsiana Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand
37. Miliusa nilagirica Bedd.
38. Miliusa ninhbinhensis Chaowasku & Kessler
39. Miliusa novoguineensis Mols & Kessler
40. Miliusa paithalmalayana Josekutty
41. Miliusa parviflora Ridl.
42. Miliusa pumila Chaowasku - Thailand ^[6]
43. Miliusa saccata C.E.C.Fisch.
44. Miliusa sahyadrica G.Rajkumar, Alister, Nazarudeen & Pandur.
45. Miliusa sclerocarpa (A.DC.) Kurz
46. Miliusa sessilis Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand
47. Miliusa tenuistipitata W.T.Wang
48. Miliusa thailandica Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand
49. Miliusa thorelii Finet & Gagnep.
50. Miliusa tirunelvelica Murugan, Manickam, Sundaresan & Jothi
51. Miliusa tomentosa (Roxb.) Finet & Gagnep.
52. Miliusa traceyi Jessup
53. Miliusa tristis Kurz
54. Miliusa umpangensis Chaowasku & Kessler - Thailand
55. Miliusa velutina (DC.) Hook.f. & Thomson
56. Miliusa vidalii J.Sinclair
57. Miliusa viridiflora Chaowasku & Kessler
58. Miliusa wayanadica Sujanapal, Ratheesh & Sasidh.
59. Miliusa wightiana Hook.f. & Thomson
60. Miliusa zeylanica Gardner ex Hook.f. & Thomson

Unresolved species

• Miliusa sinensis Finet & Gagnep is a possible synonym of M. balansae Finet & Gagnep. Miliusanes, a class of cytotoxic agents, were extracted from M. sinensis. They are potential anticancer lead molecules.^[7]

References

1. Plants of the World Online: Miliusa Lesch. ex A.DC. (retrieved 16 May 2021)
2. Kamperdick, Christine (December 2002). "Constituents from Miliusa balansae (Annonaceae)". Phytochemistry. 61 (8): 991–994. Bibcode:2002PChem..61..991K. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(02)00374-6. PMID 12453532.
3. Huong, DT; Kamperdick, C; Sung, TV (2004). "Homogentisic Acid Derivatives from Miliusa balansae". Journal of Natural Products. 67 (3): 445–447. doi:10.1021/np030195z. PMID 15043427.
4. Chaowasku, Tanawat (2013). "Seven new species of Miliusa(Annonaceae) from Thailand". Nordic Journal of Botany. 31 (6): 680–699. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2012.01785.x. S2CID 83625731.
5. "Miliusa macropoda".
6. "Species New to Science: [Botany • 2014] Miliusa pumila | ระฆังน้ำพราย • A New Species (Annonaceae) from southern Thailand". 2015-01-10.
7. Zhang, HJ; Ma, C; Nguyen, VH; Nguyen, MC; Tan, GT; Santarsiero, BD; Mesecar, AD; Soejarto, DD; Pezzuto, JM; Fong, HH (Jan 2006). "Miliusanes, a class of cytotoxic agents from Miliusa sinensis". J Med Chem. 49 (2): 693–708. doi:10.1021/jm0509492. PMID 16420055.

External links

• jstor.org
• New Miliusa in India
• Bioone.org
• Miliusa Pollen morphology