Bauhinia purpurea: 1 definition

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Bauhinia purpurea L. 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: Bauhinia castrata Blanco, Bauhinia castrata Hassk., Bauhinia coromandeliana DC., Bauhinia platyphylla Span., Bauhinia platyphylla Zipp. ex Spanoghe, Bauhinia purpurea var. corneri de Wit, Bauhinia purpurea var. violacea de Wit, Bauhinia retusa Poir., Bauhinia rosea Corner, Bauhinia triandra Roxb., Bauhinia violacea Corner, Caspareopsis purpurea (L.) Pittier, Phanera purpurea Benth., Phanera purpurea (L.) Benth..

References regarding Bauhinia purpurea L. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique. Botanique (1811)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· A Numerical List of Dried Specimens (5797)
· Flora de Filipinas (1837)
· Linnaea (1841)
· Flora (1842)
· Plantae Junghuhnianae (1852)
· Annales Botanices Systematicae (1852)
· Cat. Fl. Venez. (1945)

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