Kantukai: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Kantukai in Philippines is the name of a plant defined with Paederia foetida in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Apocynum foetidum Burm.f. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Systema Naturae, ed. 12 (1767)
· Enumeratio Spermatophytarum Japonicarum (1952)
· Fl. Cochinch. (1790)
· Mantissa Plantarum (1767)
· Opera Botanica Belgica (1991)
· Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden (1907)
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