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Jacaranda caerulea (L.) Juss. 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: Bignonia caerulea L., Etorloba caerulea (L.) Raf., Etorloba caerulea Raf., Jacaranda abbottii Urb., Jacaranda bahamensis R. Br., Jacaranda caerulea (L.) St.-Hil., Jacaranda caerulea Juss., Jacaranda caroliniana Pers., Jacaranda sagraeana A. DC., Jacaranda sagreana DC., Rafinesquia caerulea (L.) Raf., Rafinesquia caerulea Raf.) (in honor of the great botanist Constantine (Constantin) Samuel Rafi nesque (-Schmaltz), 1783–1840 (b. near Constantinople, d. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), economist, plant collector, naturalist, traveller, botanical explorer, conchologist, archaeologist, spent many years of his life in Sicily (1804–1815) and in USA, a prolifi c writer, among his works are Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medesimi. Palermo 1810, Florula ludoviciana, or, a flora of the state of Louisiana. New York 1817, Neogenyton. [Lexington, KY] 1825 and Specchio delle scienze o giornale enciclopedico della Sicilia, deposito letterario delle moderne cognizioni, etc. Palermo 1814, see J.H. Barnhart, Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 3: 123. 1965, Joseph Ewan, in D.S.B. 11: 262–264. 1981, R. Zander, F. Encke, G. Buchheim and S. Seybold, Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. 14. Aufl . 1993, Stafleu and Cowan, Taxonomic Literature. 4: 549–563. 1983, Alexander B. Adams, Eternal Quest. The Story of the Great Naturalists. New York 1969, William Darlington, Reliquiae Baldwinianae. Philadelphia 1843 and Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall. 1849, Edward Lee Greene, Landmarks of Botanical History. Edited by Frank N. Egerton. 74–75. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California 1983, T.W. Bossert, Biographical dictionary of botanists represented in the Hunt Institute portrait collection. 322. 1972, H.N. Clokie, Account of the Herbaria of the Department of Botany in the University of Oxford. 229. Oxford 19642, Jeannette Elizabeth Graustein, Thomas Nuttall, Naturalist. Explorations in America, 1808–1841. Cambridge, Harvard University Press 1967, William Jay Youmans, ed., Pioneers of Science in America. 182–195. New York 1896, E.M. Tucker, Catalogue of the library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. 1917–1933, Alex Berman, “C.S. Rafi nesque (1783–1840): a challenge to the historian of pharmacy.” American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. 16: 409–418. 1952, A. Lasègue, Musée Botanique de Benjamin Delessert. Paris 1845, Joseph Ewan, Rocky Mountain Naturalists. The University of Denver Press 1950, Michael A. Flannery, “The Medicine and Medicinal Plants of C.S. Rafi nesque.” Economic Botany. 52(1): 27–43. 1998, H.B. Haag, “Rafi nesque’s interests—a century later: medicinal plants.” Science. 94: 403–406. 1941, E.D. Merrill (1876–1956), Index Rafinesquianus. The plant names published by C.S. Rafinesque, etc. Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA 1949, Mariella Azzarello Di Misa, a cura di, Il Fondo Antico della Biblioteca dell’Orto Botanico di Palermo. 224. Palermo 1988, Garrison and Morton, Medical Bibliography. 1849. 1961, Giuseppe M. Mira, Bibliografia Siciliana. 2: 260. [“Carlo Rafanesque Schmaltz”, sic!] Palermo 1881, Ida Kaplan Langman, A Selected Guide to the Literature on the Flowering Plants of Mexico. 606. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1964, S. Lenley et al., Catalog of the Manuscript and Archival Collections and Index to the Correspondence of John Torrey. Library of the New York Botanical Garden. 467. 1973.

References regarding Jacaranda caerulea (L.) Juss. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Genera Plantarum (1789)
· Exposition des Familles Naturelles (1805)
· Synopsis Plantarum (Persoon) (1806)
· Botanical Magazine (2327)
· Sylva Telluriana (1838)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (DC.) (1845)
· Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1922)

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