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

Isafo in Southern Africa is the name of a plant defined with Faurea macnaughtonii in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Faurea natalensis Phill.) (in honor of C.B. McNaughton, Conservator of Forests in the Midland Conservancy of the Cape Colony in the 1890’s.

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

· Flora Capensis, being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal (Harvey) (1912)

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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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