Mwera: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Mwera in East Africa is the name of a plant defined with Acacia seyal in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Acacia fistula Schweinf. (among others).
2) Mwera is also identified with Acacia sieberiana It has the synonym Acacia vermoesenii De Wild.) (the specific name after Franz Wilhelm Sieber, 1789–1844, botanist, traveller and plant collector, author of Herbarium florae aegyptiacae, sive collectio stirpium rariorum Aegypti indigenorum. Vindobonae [Wien] 1820 and Reise nach der Insel Kreta. Leipzig und Sorau 1823 (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Plantae Bequaertianae (1925)
· Nature (1999)
· Linnaea (1843)
· Kew Bulletin (1950)
· Webbia (1972)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1825)
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