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

Wigandia urens (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth 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: Ernstamra urens (Ruiz & Pav.) Kuntze, Ernstamra urens Kuntze, Hydrolea urens Ruiz & Pav., Wigandia caracasana Kunth, Wigandia caracasana Hort. ex E. Vilm., Wigandia caracasana var. calycina Brand, Wigandia caracasana var. macrophylla (Schltdl. & Cham.) Brand, Wigandia caracasana var. viscosa (Brand) J.F. Macbr., Wigandia darii Ram. Goyena, Wigandia kunthii Choisy, nom. illeg., Wigandia kunthii var. eu-kunthii Brand, Wigandia kunthii var. eukunthii Brand, nom. inval., Wigandia kunthii var. intermedia Brand, Wigandia kunthii var. macrophylla (Schltdl. & Cham.) Choisy, Wigandia kunthii var. viscosa Brand, Wigandia macrophylla Schltdl. & Cham., Wigandia macrophylla Cham. & Schltdl., Wigandia peruviana W. Mill., Wigandia scorpioides Choisy, Wigandia urens Kunth, Wigandia urens Choisy, Wigandia urens Urb., Wigandia urens (Ruiz & Pav.) Choisy ex DC., Wigandia urens var. caracasana (Kunth) D.N. Gibson.

References regarding Wigandia urens (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Flora Peruviana (1802)
· Linnaea (1831)
· Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève (1833)
· Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Paris) (1833)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (DC.) (1846)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Cyclopedia of American Horticulture (1975)
· Flora Nicaragüense (1911)
· Das Pflanzenreich (Engler) (1913)
· Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (1917)
· Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1919)
· Fieldiana, Botany (1968)
· Taxon (1975)

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