Oxystelma esculentum: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)Oxystelma esculentum (L.f.) Smith is the name of a plant defined in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in modern medicine, Ayurveda, and other local traditions or folk medicine. It has the following synonyms: Asclepias rosea Roxburgh, nom. illeg., Asclepias rosea Kunth, Oxystelma alpini Decne., Oxystelma esculentum R.Br., Oxystelma esculentum (Roxb.) R.Br., Oxystelma esculentum (L.f.) Schult., Oxystelma esculentum (L.f.) R.Br. ex Schult., nom. illeg., Oxystelma esculentum Wall. ex Decne., Oxystelma esculentum var. wallichii (Wight) T. Cooke, Oxystelma secamone (L.) H. Karst. var. wallichii (Wight) M.A. Rahman & Wilcock, Oxystelma wallichii Wight, Periploca esculenta L.f., Sarcostemma esculentum (L.f.) R.W. Holm.
References regarding Oxystelma esculentum (L.f.) Smith for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Supplementum Plantarum (1782)
· Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae (1810)
· The Cyclopaedia (1813)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Systema Vegetabilium ed. 15 (1820)
· Flora Indica (1832)
· Contributions to the Botany of India (1834)
· Prodr. (DC.) (1844)
· Deutsche Flora. Pharmaceutischmedicinische Botanik
· The Flora of the Presidency of Bombay (1904)
· Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1950)
· Blumea (1990)
· Taxon (1991)
· Phytochemistry (1991)
· Phytochemistry (2004)
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See also (Relevant definitions)
Full-text (+8): Uttamaphalini, Dugdhika, Jian huai teng, Jal-dudhi, Edible oxystelma, Dudhilata, Uttama, Jaldudhi, Yugmaphalottama, Kinikinippala, Uttamai, Dudhiya-lata, Dudhia-mendhi, Gongamala, Kshirai, Jaldodi, Narot, Gharot, Gani, Dudhani.
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