Bastard mustard: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Bastard mustard in English is the name of a plant defined with Cleome gynandra in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC. (among others).
2) Bastard mustard is also identified with Cleome monophylla It has the synonym Cleome cordata Burch. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Travels in the interior of South Africa (1822)
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1872)
· Species Plantarum (1762)
· Fl. Trop. E. Afr., Capparid. (1964)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2007)
· Enumeratio Plantarum (1833)
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Partial matches: Mustard.
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