Seriphidium


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Noun 1. Seriphidium - woody plants grown chiefly for their silver or grey and often aromatic foliage; formerly included in the genus Artemisia
asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
aster family, Asteraceae, Compositae, family Asteraceae, family Compositae - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia
Artemisia cana, gray sage, grey sage, Seriphidium canum, silver sage, silver sagebrush - low much-branched perennial of western United States having silvery leaves; an important browse and shelter plant
Artemisia maritima, sea wormwood, Seriphidium maritimum - plants of western and northern European coasts
Artemisia tridentata, big sagebrush, Seriphidium tridentatum, blue sage - aromatic shrub of arid regions of western North America having hoary leaves
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Tareen, Anti-urease Secondary Metabolites from Seriphidium quettense, Rec.
A new species of subgenus Seriphidium of Artemisia L.
During summer, their ration consisted of Corispermum sp (28.16%), Seriphidium santolinum (17.98%), Artemisia desertorum (12.32%), Ephedra przewalskii (11.91%), and Horaninowia ulicina (10.29%).
The vegetation consists of dwarf shrubs, such as Ephedra sp, Seriphidium santolinum, and Callingonum spp., and perennial herbs including Lithospermum sp, Artemisia desertorum, and Carex physodes.
Seriphidium sieberi (Besser) Bremer & Humphries] [Note: This is the species identified in most earlier Arabian literature as Artemisia herba-alba Asso or Seriphidium herba-alba (Asso) Sojak.
Estudis biositematics en les especies ibero-baleariques de les seccions Artemisia i Seriphidium Bess.
Woody shrubs include mountain sagebrush (Seriphidium vaseyanum) on dry slopes, and cinquefoil (Pentaphylloides floribunda) and willows (Salix spp.) in moister areas.
On the basis of our experience, we assigned one of four fragrances: "neutral" (no discernible odor), "sweet" [pleasant floral odor, similar to sweet clover (Melilotus)], "pungent" (similar to the western sagebrush, Seriphidium vaseyanum), or "skunk." To test whether different flowers on the same plant had similar fragrance, we smelled flowers on all panicles of each plant, and we blindfolded ourselves to records of odor determinations made on previous visits to the same plant.
Statistically maximum amount of total mineral nutrients (65.66 mg g-1) were produced by Seriphidium quettense (Podlech) Ling, Bull.
Keywords: Seriphidium stenocephalum; Methanolic extract; Sphingolipids; Characterization
Summary: Phytochemical analysis of the methanolic extract of Seriphidium oliverianum resulted in the isolation of eleven compounds namely: 5,8-dihydroxy-6,7,4-trimethoxyflavone (1), 5-hydroxy-6,7,4-trimethoxyflavone (2), 5,4-dihydroxy-6,7-dimethoxyflavone (3), 5,7-dihydroxy-6,3,4-trimethoxyflavone (4), 5,6-dihydroxy-7,3,4-trimethoxyflavone (5), 5,7,4-tihydroxy-6,3- dimethoxyflavone (6), 5,6,4-trihydroxy-7,3-dimethoxyflavone (7), 5,3,4-trihydroxy-6,7- dimethoxyflavone (8), 5,7,3,4-tetrahydroxy-3,6-dimethoxyflavone (9), 7,4-dihydroxy-3,5,6- trimethoxyflavone (10) and 3,6-O-dimethylquercetagetin-7-O-AY-D-glucoside (11) for the first time from this source.

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