Mandharai: 1 definition

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

1) Mandharai in India is the name of a plant defined with Bauhinia acuminata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Pauletia tomentosa (L.) A. Schmitz (among others).

2) Mandharai is also identified with Bauhinia purpurea It has the synonym Bauhinia purpurea var. corneri de Wit (etc.).

3) Mandharai is also identified with Bauhinia variegata It has the synonym Phanera variegata Benth. (etc.).

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

· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2003)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique. Botanique (1811)
· Flora Cochinchinensis (1852)
· Linnaea (1841)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Species Plantarum (1753)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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