Adenia

See also: adenia and -adenia

Translingual

Adenia glauca

Etymology

1763 from Forsskål, who has recorded Arabic عَدَن‎ (ʿadan) for Adenia venenata and added the suffix +‎ -ia; it stayed the only known species of the genus for a century. Doublet of Adenium for which the Arabic name is used.

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, fabids, COM clade - clades; Malpighiales - order; Passifloraceae - family

Hyponyms

(genus): Adenia venenata - type species