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

1) Gif in Senegal is the name of a plant defined with Adansonia digitata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ophelus sitularius Lour. (among others).

2) Gif in Southern Africa is also identified with Dichapetalum cymosum It has the synonym Dychapetalum venenatum Engl. & Gilg (etc.).

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

· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (1906)
· Fl. Somala (1932)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· A grammar and vocabulary of the Nupe language. (1864)
· Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1995)
· The Okavango River. (1861)

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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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