Villa de mar: 1 definition

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

Villa de mar in Latin America is the name of a plant defined with Caesalpinia bonduc in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Guilandina crista (L.) Small (among others).

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

· Flora of the British West Indian Islands (1860)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1825)
· Flore phanérogamique des Antilles françaises (1897)
· Prodr. Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ Orient. (1834)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)

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