Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Mkwakwa in Kenya is the name of a plant defined with Strychnos decussata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym see Mary Gunn and Leslie E. Codd, Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa. 82–83. Cape Town 1981 (among others).

2) Mkwakwa is also identified with Strychnos spinosa It has the synonym Strychnos madagascariensis Poir. (etc.).

3) Mkwakwa in Southern Africa is also identified with Strychnos madagascariensis It has the synonym Strychnos randiaeformis Baill. (etc.).

4) Mkwakwa in Tanzania is also identified with Strychnos innocua.

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

· Études de systematique et de géographie botaniques sur la flore de Bas- et du Moyen-Congo (1904)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1983)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1886)
· Tentamen Florae Abyssinicae (1851)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzenge schichte und Pflanzengeographie (1899)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzenge schichte und Pflanzengeographie (1905)

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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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Starts with: Mkwakwara.

Ends with: Umkwakwa.

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