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

1) Ton in Papua New Guinea is the name of a plant defined with Laportea decumana in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Urticastrum decumanum (Roxb.) Kuntze (among others).

2) Ton is also identified with Pometia pinnata It has the synonym Irina tomentosa Blume (etc.).

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

· Characteres Generum Plantarum (1775)
· Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle (1856)
· Flora Indica (1832)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië (1825)
· Catalogus plantarum quae in Horto botanico bogoriensi (1886)

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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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