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Biology (plants and animals)

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

Zela in Tanzania is the name of a plant defined with Ficus sansibarica in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ficus brachylepis Welw. ex Hiern (among others).

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

· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (1894)
· Kew Bulletin (1988)
· Catalogue of the African Plants collected by Dr. F. Welwitsch in 1853-61 (Hiern) (1853)
· Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew (1915)
· Forest Fl. Port. E. Afr. (1909)

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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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