Biology (plants and animals)

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

Pterolepis trichotoma (Rottb.) Cogn. 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: Arthrostemma exiguum Naudin, Arthrostemma goudotianum Naudin, Arthrostemma ladanoides (Rich.) DC., Arthrostemma pumilum (Bonpl.) Naudin, Arthrostemma pusillum (Miq.) Naudin, Osbeckia pumila (Bonpl.) DC., Osbeckia pumila DC., Pterolepis egleri Brade & Markgr., Pterolepis goudotiana Triana, Pterolepis goudotiana (Naudin) Triana, Pterolepis hispida (Rich.) Gleason, Pterolepis ladanoides (Rich.) Triana, Pterolepis lanceolata Cogn., Pterolepis pohliana Cogn., Pterolepis pumila Crueg., Pterolepis pumila Cogn., Pterolepis pumila (Bonpl.) Cogn., Pterolepis pumila var. procera Cogn., Pterolepis pumila var. ramosa Cogn., Pterolepis pumila var. robusta Cogn., Pterolepis pusilla Miq., Rhexia hispida Rich., Rhexia ladanoides Rich., Rhexia pumila Bonpl., Rhexia pumila Humb. & Bonpl., Rhexia pumila Mutis, Rhexia strigosa Rich., Rhexia trichotoma Rottb., Tibouchina strigosa (Rich.) Cogn.) (Rhexia L., an ancient Greek name, rhegnymi ‘to break, break asunder, rend’, rhexis ‘breaking, bursting, cleft’, Plinius applied Latin rhexia, ae to a plant, also called onochilis..

References regarding Pterolepis trichotoma (Rottb.) Cogn. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Descriptiones rariorum plantarum … e terra surinamensi (1776)
· Descriptiones plantarum quarundam surinamensium
· Fragmenta materiæ medicæ … surinamensis. (1798)
· Actes de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris (1792)
· Monographia Melastomacearum (1813)
· Prodr. (DC.) (1828)
· Linnaea (1845)
· Linnaea (1847)
· Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique (1850)
· Etymologisch-botanisches Handwörterbuch. (1852)
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1871)
· Flora Brasiliensis (Martius) (1885)
· Monographiae Phanerogamarum (1891)
· Publ. Carnegie Inst. Wash. (1940)
· Diario de Observaciones de Jose Celestino Mutis, 1760– 1790. (1760)
· Willdenowia (1961)
· Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen. (1996)

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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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