Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)

Pachyrhizus erosus (L.) Urb. 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: Cacara bulbosa Thouars, Cacara bulbosa Rumphius ex Du Petit-Thouars, Cacara erosa (L.) Kuntze, Cacara erosa Kuntze, Cacara palmatiloba (DC.) Kuntze, Cacara palmatiloba (Moc. & Sessé ex DC.) Kuntze, Dolichos articulatus Lam., Dolichos bulbosus L., nom. illeg. superfl ., Dolichos erosus L., Dolichos palmatilobus DC., Dolichos palmatilobus Moc. & Sessé ex DC., Pachyrhizus angulatus Rich. ex DC., nom. illeg., Pachyrhizus angulatus DC., Pachyrhizus articulatus Duchass. ex Walp., Pachyrhizus articulatus Walp., Pachyrhizus bulbosus (L.) Kurz, Pachyrhizus bulbosus (L.) Britton, nom. illeg., non Pachyrhizus bulbosus (L.) Kurz, Pachyrhizus erosus var. palmatilobus (Moc. & Sessé ex DC.) R.T. Clausen, Pachyrhizus erosus var. palmatilobus (DC.) R.T. Clausen, Pachyrhizus erosus var. typicus R.T. Clausen, Pachyrhizus jicamas Blanco, Pachyrhizus palmatilobus (DC.) Benth. & Hook.f., Pachyrhizus palmatilobus (Moc. & Sessé ex DC.) Benth. & Hook.f., Pachyrhizus panamensis R.T. Clausen, Pachyrhizus strigosus R.T. Clausen, Pachyrhizus vernalis R.T. Clausen, Pachyrrhizus erosus (L.) Urb., Pachyrhizus erosus var. palmatilobus (DC.) Clausen, Pachyrrhizus erosus var. palmatilobus (Moc. & Sessé ex DC.) R.T. Clausen, Robynsia lobata M. Martens & Galeotti, Robynsia macrophylla M. Martens & Galeotti, Stizolobium bulbosum (L.) Spreng., Stizolobium bulbosum Spreng., Stizolobium domingense Spreng., nom. illeg. superfl., Taeniocarpum articulatum (Lam.) Desv.) (Latin strigosus ‘covered with strigae, with stiff bristles’.

References regarding Pachyrhizus erosus (L.) Urb. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Species Plantarum
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (1786)
· Dict. Sci. Nat. (Levrault) (1806)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1825)
· Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Paris) (1826)
· Systema Vegetabilium (1826)
· An Introduction to the Natural System of Botany (1836)
· Flora de Filipinas (1837)
· Bulletin de l’Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres de Bruxelles (1843)
· Flora (1853)
· Genera Plantarum (1865)
· Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
· Natural history (1876)
· Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1889)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Symbolae Antillarum seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis (1905)
· Flora of West Tropical Africa (1931)
· Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Memoir (1944)
· Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1981)
· Listados Florísticos de México (1983)
· Descriptive Flora of Puerto Rico and Adjacent Islands: Spermatophyta (1988)
· Cuscatlania (1989)
· Acta Botanica Austro Sinica (1991)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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