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

Schefflera in English is the name of a plant defined with Schefflera actinophylla in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym according to some other authors the genus was named for Lady Annie Brassey, an English traveller who married Lord Thomas Brassey in 1860, she is best known for her The Last Voyage … 1887. [Lady Brassey’s journals and notes of her last voyage to India and Australia in the Sunbeam.] London 1889. (among others).

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

· Journal of Medical and Applied Malacology (2000)
· N. D. Farm Res., (1985)
· J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. (1917)
· Novarum stirpium decades. (1839)
· Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1864)
· Characteres Generum Plantarum (1775)

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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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