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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Kalajige in Mali is the name of a plant defined with Xeroderris stuhlmannii in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Alain White and Boyd Lincoln Sloane, The Stapelieae. Pasadena 1937, J.H. Barnhart, Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 3: 343. 1965. According to some authors the species named after Franz Ernst Stuhlmann, one time Acting Governor of Tanganyika and collector of plants.) (Ostryoderris Dunn, possibly from the Greek ostreion, ostreon ‘an oyster’. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· An Introduction to the Natural System of Botany (1836)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2005)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1990)
· Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas (1915)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1985)
· Thai Forest Bull., Bot. (2000)
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