Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Umdubu in Southern Africa is the name of a plant defined with Combretum caffrum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Dodonaea caffra Eckl. & Zeyh. (among others).

2) Umdubu is also identified with Combretum erythrophyllum It has the synonym Combretum glomeruliflorum Sond. (etc.).

3) Umdubu is also identified with Combretum hereroense It has the synonym see H. Beiderbecke, Life among the Hereros in Africa. New York 1922, Frank R. Vivelo, The Herero of Western Botswana. St. Paul 1956. (etc.).

4) Umdubu is also identified with Combretum kraussii It has the synonym see Christian Ferdinand Hochstetter (1787–1860), “Pflanzen des Cap- und Natal-landes, gesammelt und zusammengestelt von Dr. Ferdinand Krauss.” Flora. 28: 337–344, 753–764. 1845 and 29: 113–129, 129–138, 209–219. 1846 and John Hutchinson (1884–1972), A Botanist in Southern Africa. London 1946, J.H. Barnhart, Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 2: 319. 1965. (etc.).

5) Umdubu is also identified with Ficus capreifolia It has the synonym Ficus palustris K. Schum. & Lauterb. (etc.).

6) Umdubu is also identified with Xylotheca kraussiana It has the synonym T.W. Bossert, compil., Biographical Dictionary of Botanists Represented in the Hunt Institute Portrait Collection. 219. 1972 (etc.).

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

· Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral.
· Linnaea (1850)
· Forest Flora and Forest Researches of Portuguese East Africa (1909)
· Flora (1844)
· Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew (1922)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1898)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Umdubu, for example health benefits, side effects, diet and recipes, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, chemical composition, have a look at these references.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Umdubu wehlathi, Umdubu womfula, Umdubu-wehlanze, Umdubuwehlathi.

Full-text: Umdubu womfula, Umdubu wehlathi, Umdubu-wehlanze.

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