Nkalanga: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Nkalanga in Gabon is the name of a plant defined with Millettia versicolor in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Isoberlinia scheffleri (Harms ex Engl.) Greenway (among others).
2) Nkalanga in South Rhodesia is also identified with Combretum apiculatum It has the synonym Combretum apiculatum var. sulphureum (Heurck & Müll.Arg.) Dummer (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Linnaea (1850)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzenge schichte und Pflanzengeographie (1902)
· Bull. Méd. Trad. Pharm. (1989)
· Flora of Tropical Africa (1871)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew (1937)
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