Etopojo: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Etopojo in East Africa is the name of a plant defined with Commiphora africana in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Balsamodendrum kotschyi O. Berg (among others).
2) Etopojo in Kenya is also identified with Lannea rivae.
3) Etopojo is also identified with Lannea schimperi It has the synonym Odina schimperi Hochst. ex A. Rich. var. glabrescens Engl. (etc.).
4) Etopojo is also identified with Lannea triphylla.
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Bulletin du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle (1934)
· Exploration Botanique de l’Afrique Occidentale Française (1920)
· Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (1897)
· Economic Botany (1990)
· Hooker's Icones Plantarum, or ‘figures, with brief descriptive characters and remarks of new or rare plants’ (3108)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1981)
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