family Myrsinaceae

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family Myrsinaceae - family of Old World tropical trees and shrubs; some in Florida

dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

order Primulales, Primulales - Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae

genus Myrsine, Myrsine - evergreen trees and shrubs having aromatic foliage; Africa; Asia (New Zealand)

Ardisia, genus Ardisia - tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas

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Embelia ribes Brum (Common name Baberang), belongs to family myrsinaceae.

Evaluation of Antioxidant Effects and Inhibitory Activity of Medicinal Plants against Lipid Peroxidation Induced by Iron and Sodium Nitroprusside in the Mouse Brain

DC (of the family Myrsinaceae), a Chinese medicinal herb also known as Jiu Jie Long, has been found as an anticancer compound (Zhang et al.

Ardipusilloside inhibits survival, invasion and metastasis of human hepatocellular carcinoma cells