Barakante: 1 definition

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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Barakante in Mali is the name of a plant defined with Commiphora africana in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Balsamea pilosa Engl. (among others).

2) Barakante is also identified with Commiphora pedunculata It has the synonym Balsamodendrum pedunculatum Kotschy & Peyr. (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2005)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (1912)
· Annals of Natural History (1839)
· Plantae tinneanae (1867)
· Fitoterapia (2008)
· Florae Senegambiae Tentamen (1831)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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