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

Terminalia catappa L. 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: Badamia commersonii Gaertn., Catappa domestica Rumph., Juglans catappa (L.) Lour., Myrobalanus catappa Kuntze, Myrobalanus catappa (L.) Kuntze, Terminalia badamia Tul., Terminalia badamia auct., Terminalia badamia DC., Terminalia catappa var. chlorocarpa Hassk., Terminalia catappa var. macrocarpa Hassk., Terminalia catappa var. rhodocarpa Hassk., Terminalia catappa var. subcordata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) DC., Terminalia intermedia Urb., Terminalia intermedia Bertero ex Spreng., Terminalia intermedia Span., Terminalia latifolia Blanco, Terminalia latifolia Sw., Terminalia mauritania Blanco, Terminalia mauritiana Lam., Terminalia moluccana Lam., Terminalia moluccana Wall., Terminalia moluccana Roxb., Terminalia myrobalana Roth, Terminalia ovatifolia Noronha, Terminalia paraensis Mart., Terminalia procera Roxb., Terminalia rubrigemmis Tul., Terminalia subcordata Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) (from the Malabar name katapang.

References regarding Terminalia catappa L. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Herbarium Amboinense (1741)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Mantissa Plantarum (1767)
· Encycl. (Lamarck) (1785)
· Prodr. (Swartz) (1788)
· Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschapen (1790)
· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1790)
· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1791)
· Species Plantarum, ed. 4 (1806)
· Pl. Coromandel (1811)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Novae Plantarum Species praesertim Indiae Orientalis (1821)
· Systema Vegetabilium (1825)
· Prodr. (DC.) (1828)
· Numer. List (3969)
· Flora de Filipinas (1837)
· Flora (1841)
· Linnaea (1841)
· Flora de Filipinas, ed. 2 (1845)
· Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique (1856)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1926)
· Brittonia (1971)
· Contr. Queensland Herb. (1977)

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