Mtoo: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Mtoo in Tanzania is the name of a plant defined with Azanza garckeana in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Thespesia triloba Hoffm.) (species named after the German botanist Christian August Friedrich Garcke, 1819–1904, author of Flora von Halle… 2 vols. Berlin 1848, 1856) (Shantzia Lewton, Malvaceae, for the American botanist Homer LeRoy (Leroy) Shantz, 1876–1958, traveller (Africa) and plant collector (among others).
2) Mtoo is also identified with Kotschya africana It has the synonym Smithia kotschyi Benth. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Notulae Systematicae. (1951)
· Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences (1928)
· Plantae Junghuhnianae (1852)
· Novarum Stirpium Decades (1839)
· Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora von Central-OstAfrika (1889)
· Hortus Kewensis (1789)
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