Biology (plants and animals)

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

Jakkalsbos in South Africa is the name of a plant defined with Osteospermum ecklonis in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym see Karl Boriwog Presl, Botanische Bemerkungen. Prague 1844, Peter MacOwan, “Personalia of botanical collectors at the Cape.” Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. 4(1): xliii-xlvi. 1884– 1886 and Günther Schmid, Chamisso als Naturforscher. Eine Bibliographie. Leipzig 1942, John Hutchinson, A botanist in Southern Africa. 641–642. London 1946, H.N. Clokie, Account of the Herbaria of the Department of Botany in the University of Oxford. Oxford 1964, John H. Barnhart, Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 1: 494. 1965, Mary Gunn and Leslie E. Codd, Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa. Cape Town 1981, Gordon Douglas Rowley, A History of Succulent Plants. 1997. (among others).

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

· Stud. Calend. (1943)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1837)

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