Mufuu: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Mufuu in Tanzania is the name of a plant defined with Vitex ferruginea in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Chrysomallum integrifolium Bojer ex Schau. (among others).
2) Mufuu is also identified with Vitex payos It has the synonym Vitex hildebrandtii var. glabrescens W. Piep. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Flora of Tropical East Africa Verb. (1992)
· Known Geogr. Dist. Verben., ed. 2 (1942)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1847)
· Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas (1895)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1906)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (1928)
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