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Hoodia gordonii

Flowering Plants

Hoodia gordonii, also known as Bushman's hat, is a leafless spiny succulent plant that grows naturally in Botswana, South Africa and Namibia. It has been claimed to have therapeutic properties in folk medicine, and it became internationally known, and threatened by collectors, after a marketing campaign falsely claimed it was an appetite suppressant for weight loss. Its flowers smell like rotten meat and are pollinated mainly by flies, and the indigenous San people of the Namib desert call the plant by their own name for it. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 1
Relationship to People
Used in Traditional Medicine 1
Scientific Name
Hoodia gordonii 2
Conservation Status
Not Evaluated 3
Comparison
CITES Appendix
Appendix II 1
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Gentianales, Taxa
Source GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Hoodia gordonii

In Biome

Desert, Biomes
Source Wikidata: Hoodia gordonii
Sources
1. Hoodia gordonii (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction
    The flowers smell like rotten meat and are pollinated mainly by flies. The indigenous San people of the Namib desert call this plant ǁhoba (pronounced [kǁʰɔbɑ] - the initial sound is a lateral click).
  • article text (relationship to people), EntityId 368107
    Hoodia gordonii, also known as Bushman's hat, is a leafless spiny succulent plant claimed to have therapeutic properties in folk medicine.
  • Infobox: status2
    CITES_A2
  • Lead, sentence naming the group it belongs to
    Hoodia gordonii, also known as Bushman's hat, is a leafless spiny succulent plant claimed to have therapeutic properties in folk medicine.
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2. Wikipedia: Hoodia gordonii
Wikipedia
3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (IUCN Red List category): IUCN Red List category of Hoodia gordonii
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (IUCN Red List category)iucnRedListCategory record
Quote, iucnRedListCategory record
"category": "NOT_EVALUATED"
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
International Union for Conservation of NatureView the Source
Plant (Wikipedia)
Lead, whole group is photosynthetic
Quote, Lead, whole group is photosynthetic
They are predominantly photosynthetic or came from photosynthetic ancestors, meaning that they obtain their energy from sunlight by using the green pigment chlorophyll in their chloroplasts to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water.
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Wikidata: Hoodia gordonii
In Biome: Desert, IntroductionView the Source
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Hoodia gordonii
GBIF Backbone TaxonomyChild Taxon Of: Gentianales, Taxon record
Quote, Child Taxon Of: Gentianales, Taxon record
"order": "Gentianales"
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