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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Mudowe in Southern Africa is the name of a plant defined with Boscia albitrunca in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Capparis oleoides auct., sensu Marloth, misapplied name (among others).
2) Mudowe is also identified with Olax dissitiflora It has the synonym Olax stuhlmannii Engl.) (Latin dissitus, a, um ‘well spaced, scattered, lying apart, disperse, remote, apart’, referring to the well-spaced flowers (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1884)
· Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien Nachtr. (1897)
· Prodr. (DC.) (1824)
· Flora of Tropical Africa (1868)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1889)
· Notizblatt des Königlichen botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin (1899)
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