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

1) Emu in Ghana is the name of a plant defined with Oryza sativa in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Oryza sativa var. melanacra Körn. (among others).

2) Emu in Yoruba is also identified with Zornia latifolia It has the synonym Zornia pubescens Kunth (etc.).

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

· Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle d’Autun (1893)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1825)
· Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (1823)
· Kromosomo
· Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1889)
· Blumea (1987)

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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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