Boxfruit vine: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Boxfruit vine in English is the name of a plant defined with Merremia turpethum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Operculina ornithopoda (B.L. Rob.) House (among others).
2) Boxfruit vine is also identified with Operculina turpethum It has the synonym Ipomoea anceps (L.) Roemer & Schultes (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Flora Brasiliensis (Martius) (1869)
· Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae (1810)
· Systema Vegetabilium, ed. 15 (1819)
· Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1892)
· Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1893)
· Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical series (1959)
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Partial matches: Vine.
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