Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Mbungu in Tanzania is the name of a plant defined with Saba comorensis in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Landolphia florida Benth. (among others).

2) Mbungu is also identified with Treculia africana It has the synonym Myriopeltis edulis Welw. ex Hook.f. (etc.).

3) Mbungu is also identified with Treculia erinacea It has the synonym Antiaris toxicaria Lesch. subsp. africana (Scott-Elliot ex A. Chev.) C.C. Berg (etc.).

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

· Recherches sur la Flore Méridionale de Madagascar (1912)
· Catalogue of the African Plants collected by Dr. F. Welwitsch (1853)
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1875)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1844)
· Mémoires du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle (1948)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzenge schichte und Pflanzengeographie (1893)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Mbungu, for example pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, chemical composition, side effects, health benefits, extract dosage, have a look at these references.

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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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Ends with: Lumbungu, Mumbungu, Ombungu, Omunianiambungu.

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