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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Monkey rope in English is the name of a plant defined with Adenia cissampeloides in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ophiocaulon reticulatum De Wild. & T. Durand (among others).
2) Monkey rope is also identified with Adenia gummifera It has the synonym Ophiocaulon gummifer Mast., also gummiferum (etc.).
3) Monkey rope is also identified with Rhoicissus tridentata It has the synonym Vitis capensis Thunb., non Burm. f. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Enumeratio Plantarum Africae Australis Extratropicae (1835)
· South African Journal of Botany (1986)
· Annals of the Transvaal Museum (1912)
· Supplementum Plantarum (1781)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzenge schichte und Pflanzengeographie (1911)
· Transactions of the Rhodesia Scientific Association (1951)
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