Calcha: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Calcha in Latin America is the name of a plant defined with Callisia gracilis in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Tradescantia diaphana Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f. (among others).
2) Calcha is also identified with Callisia repens It has the synonym Spironema robbinsii C. Wright (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro (1999)
· Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae (1810)
· Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ Occid. (1797)
· Fieldiana, Botany (1951)
· Enumeratio Systematica Plantarum (1760)
· Iconum Botanicarum Index
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Full-text: Plectranthus scutellarioides, Plectranthus rotundifolius.
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