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Polyalthia suaveolens Engl. & Diels 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: Greenwayodendron suaveolens (Engl. & Diels) Verdc., Maba gossweileri Greves, Polyalthia acuminata Oliv., Polyalthia aubrevillei Ghesquiere ex Aubrev., Polyalthia mortehani De Wild., Polyalthia oliveri Engl., Xylopia otunga Exell) (Greenwayodendron Verdc., for the South African (b. Transvaal) botanist Percy (Peter) James Greenway, 1897–1980, from 1927 to 1950 East African Agricultural Research Station (Amani), in 1928 a Fellow of the Linnean Society, 1950–1958 botanist of the East African Herbarium in Nairobi, systematic botanist, plant collector with Colin Graham Trapnell and John P. Micklethwait Brenan (1917–1985) in Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1970–1971 President of the Kew Guild, author of A Swahili-Botanical-English Dictionary of Plant Names. Dar es Salaam 1940 and “The Pawpaw or Papaya.” E.A. Agri. Journ. 13: 228–233. Nairobi 1948, coauthor (with Ivan Robert Dale, 1904–1963) of Kenya Trees & Shrubs. Nairobi 1961, editor of Jessie Williamson’s Useful Plants of Nyasaland. Zomba, Nyasaland 1955 and of the East African Agricultural Journal, see Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and Horticulturists. 295. 1994..

References regarding Polyalthia suaveolens Engl. & Diels for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Systema Naturae
· Characteres Generum Plantarum (1775)
· Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (1897)
· Monographien afrikanischer Pflanzen-Familien und -Gattungen (1901)
· Adansonia: recueil périodique d’observations botanique, (1969)
· Acta Leidensia (1990)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2005)
· Nat. Prod. Res. (2006)
· Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. (3495)

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