Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Coyolillo in Central America is the name of a plant defined with Astrocaryum standleyanum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Astrocaryum standleyanum var. calimense Dugand (among others).

2) Coyolillo in Costa Rica is also identified with Astrocaryum alatum It has the synonym Hexopetion alatum (H.F. Loomis) F. Kahn & Pintaud) C. America, Colombia. Tree, short trunk, erect, armed, mass of roots at base, persistent leaf bases, sheath persistent, very spiny along midrib and petiole, inflorescences among leaves, flowers creamy white, infructescence erect or pendent, old spathes reflexed, hard fruit brownish green with blackish spines, fruit can be eaten, pulp sometimes eaten, lowland, forest edge, tropical wet forest, (Rows of black spines..

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

· Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (1951)
· Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences (1939)
· Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden (2003)
· Revista Peruana de Biologia (2008)
· Gentes Herbarum (1933)
· Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1934)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Coyolillo, for example pregnancy safety, extract dosage, side effects, diet and recipes, chemical composition, health benefits, have a look at these references.

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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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