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Internal ID UUID643ff44a8ddf8071646418
Scientific name Lagenaria abyssinica
Authority (Hook.f.) C.Jeffrey
First published in Kew Bull. 15: 355 (1961 publ. 1962)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Adenopus abyssinicus Hook.f. Fl. Trop. Afr. 2: 528 (1871)
Adenopus reticulatus Gilg Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 34: 348 (1904)

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Language Common/alternative name
Arabic كالاباش حبشي
Arabic دباء حبشي
Chinese 非洲葫芦

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Chad
      • Ethiopia
      • Sudan
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi
      • Rwanda
      • Zaïre

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000361515
Tropicos 9201587
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:293033-1
The Plant List kew-2342903
Open Tree Of Life 6094711
NCBI Taxonomy 2984661
IPNI 293033-1
GBIF 3623478
Freebase /m/0462l80
EPPO LGNAB
USDA GRIN 21382
Wikipedia Lagenaria_abyssinica

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Important Medicinal and Food Taxa (Orders and Families) in Kenya, Based on Three Quantitative Approaches Mutie FM, Mbuni YM, Rono PC, Mkala EM, Nzei JM, Phumthum M, Hu GW, Wang QF Plants (Basel) 02-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10005506
doi:10.3390/plants12051145
PMID:36904005
Ethnopharmacological Study of Medicinal Plants Used for the Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases and Their Associated Risk Factors in sub-Saharan Africa Odukoya JO, Odukoya JO, Mmutlane EM, Ndinteh DT Plants (Basel) 23-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9143319
doi:10.3390/plants11101387
PMID:35631812
Use and Conservation of Medicinal Plants by Indigenous People of Gozamin Wereda, East Gojjam Zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia: An Ethnobotanical Approach Amsalu N, Bezie Y, Fentahun M, Alemayehu A, Amsalu G Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 19-Mar-2018
PMCID:PMC5884302
doi:10.1155/2018/2973513
PMID:29743921
Dietary flexibility of Bale monkeys (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) in southern Ethiopia: effects of habitat degradation and life in fragments Mekonnen A, Fashing PJ, Bekele A, Hernandez-Aguilar RA, Rueness EK, Stenseth NC BMC Ecol 06-Feb-2018
PMCID:PMC5801891
doi:10.1186/s12898-018-0161-4
PMID:29409472
Ethnobotanical study of homegarden plants in Sebeta-Awas District of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia to assess use, species diversity and management practices Mekonen T, Giday M, Kelbessa E J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 22-Aug-2015
PMCID:PMC4546269
doi:10.1186/s13002-015-0049-8
PMID:26296364
Ethnopharmacological Survey of Plants Used in the Traditional Treatment of Gastrointestinal Pain, Inflammation and Diarrhea in Africa: Future Perspectives for Integration into Modern Medicine Stark TD, Mtui DJ, Balemba OB Animals (Basel) 04-Mar-2013
PMCID:PMC4495512
doi:10.3390/ani3010158
PMID:26487315

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