Muhonga: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Muhonga 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) Muhonga is also identified with Strychnos spinosa It has the synonym Strychnos sansibariensis Gilg (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (1899)
· Sylloge Plantarum Novarum (1824)
· Abh. Kon. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1894)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2004)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzenge schichte und Pflanzengeographie (1905)
· Études de systematique et de géographie botaniques sur la flore de Bas- et du Moyen-Congo (1904)
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