Musewa: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Musewa in East Africa is the name of a plant defined with Acacia polyacantha in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Gagnebina tamariscina sensu Bojer (among others).
2) Musewa in Kenya is also identified with Acacia seyal It has the synonym Acacia fistula Schweinf. (etc.).
3) Musewa is also identified with Acacia xanthophloea It has the synonym Vachellia xanthophloea (Benth.) Banfi & Galasso) (the specific name from the Greek xanthos ‘yellow’ and phloios ‘bark of trees’.
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1875)
· Hortus Suburbanus Calcuttensis (1845)
· Species Plantarum.
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· North American Flora (1928)
· Nature (1999)
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