Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Pucashchi in Central America is the name of a plant defined with Astrocaryum standleyanum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Astrocaryum trachycarpum Burret) Costa Rica, Ecuador. Tree, adventitious roots at nodes, armed with flattened spines, trunk and petiole very spiny, trunk internodes set with long spines, leaf base heavily armed, rachis armed with spines of different length, pendent inflorescences from upper leaves, peduncle heavily armed, fruits basally on floral branches, drooping ripe fruits bright orange, leathery spineless pericarp, pulp orange, unripe and ripe fruits eaten, (Spiny trunk and leaves. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Gentes Herbarum (1933)
· Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1934)
· Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (1951)

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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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