Mdonga: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Mdonga in Tanzania is the name of a plant defined with Strychnos cocculoides in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Strychnos suberosa De Wild..
2) Mdonga is also identified with Strychnos innocua.
3) Mdonga is also identified with Strychnos spinosa It has the synonym Strychnos euryphylla Gilg & Busse (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Flora of Tropical Africa (1903)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzenge schichte und Pflanzengeographie (1902)
· Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew (1895)
· Sylloge Plantarum Novarum (1824)
· Hortus Mauritianus (1837)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (1808)
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