Hoodia gordonii: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)Hoodia gordonii Sweet is the name of a plant defined in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in modern medicine, Ayurveda, and other local traditions or folk medicine. It has the following synonyms: Hoodia gordonii (Masson) Sweet ex Decne.) (after Col. Robert Jacob Gordon, 1743–1795, in the 18th century discovered the plant somewhere near the Orange River..
References regarding Hoodia gordonii Sweet for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:
· Loudon’s Hortus Britannicus (1832)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (DC.) (1844)
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