Leucaena leucocephala: 1 definition

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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)

Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit 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: Acacia aurisparsa Drake, Acacia frondosa Willd., Acacia glauca Ser., Acacia glauca (L.) Willd., Acacia glauca Willd., nom. illeg., Acacia glauca Moench, Acacia glauca (L.) Moench, Acacia leucocephala Link, Acacia leucocephala (Lam.) Link, Albizia aurisparsa (Drake) R. Vig., Albizia aurisparsa (Drake) R. Vig. ex Capuron, Albizia grandibracteata Taub., Leucaena glabra Benth., Leucaena glauca (Willd.) Benth., Leucaena glauca Benth., Leucaena glauca (sensu L. 1763) Benth., Leucaena latisiliqua (L.) Gillis, Leucaena latisiliqua (L.) Gillis & Stearn, Lysiloma bahamense Benth., Lysiloma latisiliquum (L.) Benth., Lysiloma latisiliquum Benth., Mimosa glauca sensu L. 1763, Mimosa glauca Koen. ex Roxb., Mimosa leucocephala Lam..

References regarding Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Species Plantarum (1753)
· The Gardeners Dictionary (1754)
· Species Plantarum
· Magazzino toscano (1772)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (Lamarck) (1783)
· Methodus Plantas Horti Botanici (1794)
· Species Plantarum.
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Berolinensis Altera (1822)
· Journal of Botany, being a second series of the Botanical Miscellany (Hooker) (1842)
· London Journal of Botany (1844)
· Flora of the British West Indian Islands (1860)
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1875)
· Die Pflanzenwelt OstAfrikas (1895)
· Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Paris
· Taxon (1961)
· Adansonia (1970)
· Adansonia (1971)
· Taxon (1974)
· Journal of the Arnold Arboretum (1976)
· Taxon (1980)
· Ciencia e Cultura (1986)
· Cytologia (1988)
· Revista Brasileira de Genética (1991)
· Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica (1994)
· American Journal of Botany (1994)
· Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands, Occasional Papers (2001)

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