Mutwa: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Mutwa in Namibia is the name of a plant defined with Acacia reficiens in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Acacia uncinata Engl.) (the specific and subspecific names from the Latin reficio, ficere, feci, fectum (facio) ‘to make again, to restore, to repair’.
2) Mutwa in Tanzania is also identified with Azanza garckeana It has the synonym Thespesia rogersii Moore (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora von Central-OstAfrika (1889)
· Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Classe (Klasse) der K. B. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München (1860)
· Contrib. Conhec. da Flora de Moçambique (1954)
· Bothalia (1981)
· Bothalia (1974)
· Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences (1928)
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