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

Carutakam in India is the name of a plant defined with Pterocarpus marsupium in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Pterocarpus marsupium fo. acuta Prain (among others).

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

· Plants of the Coast of Coromandel (1799)
· Ethnobotany (2004)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Taxon (1980)
· Familles des Plantes (1763)
· Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

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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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