Acacia polyacantha: 1 definition

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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)

1) Acacia polyacantha Willd. is the name of a plant defined in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in modern medicine, Ayurveda, and other local traditions or folk medicine. It has the following synonyms: Acacia catechu Griseb., Acacia catechu auct. non L., Acacia catechu (L.f.) Willd., Acacia suma (Roxb.) Buch.-Ham. ex J.O. Voigt, Acacia suma (Roxb.) J.O. Voigt, Gagnebina tamariscina sensu Bojer, Mimosa suma Roxb., Senegalia catechu (L.f.) P.J.H. Hurter & Mabb., Senegalia suma (Roxb.) Britton & Rose.

References regarding Acacia polyacantha Willd. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Supplementum Plantarum (1781)
· Species Plantarum.
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Flora Indica (1832)
· Hortus Suburbanus Calcuttensis (1845)
· Flora of the British West Indian Islands (1860)
· The forest flora of North-West and Central India (1874)
· North American Flora (1928)
· Mabberley’s Plant-Book

2) Acacia polyacantha Willd. subsp. campylacantha (A. Rich.) Brenan is another plant having the following synonyms: Acacia caffra (Thunb.) Willd. var. campylacantha (Hochst.) ex A. Rich.) Roberty, Acacia caffra (Thunb.) Willd. var. campylacantha (A. Rich.) Aubrev., Acacia campylacantha Hochst ex A. Rich., Acacia campylacantha A. Rich., Acacia catechu (L.f.) Willd. subsp. suma (Roxb.) Roberty, Acacia polyacantha subsp. campylacantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Brenan (from the Greek polys ‘many’ and akantha ‘thorn’, and kampylos ‘curved’ and akantha ‘thorn’.

References regarding Acacia polyacantha Willd. subsp. campylacantha (A. Rich.) Brenan for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Rev. Samuel Johnson,
· The History of the Yorubas. (1921)
· The Origin of the Yoruba. (1955)
· Kew Bulletin (1956)
· Ifa Divination. Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa. (1969)
· Sources of Yoruba History. (1973)

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