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Internal ID UUID643fd840721d5431482554
Scientific name Abrus canescens
Authority Welw. ex Baker
First published in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr.2: 175 (1871)

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Language Common/alternative name
Arabic قلقل رمادي
Lithuanian kininis abras
Chinese 雞骨草

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Chad
      • Ethiopia
      • Sudan
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Zambia
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Benin
      • Burkina
      • Gambia
      • Ghana
      • Guinea
      • Guinea-Bissau
      • Ivory Coast
      • Liberia
      • Mali
      • Nigeria
      • Senegal
      • Sierra Leone
      • Togo
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi
      • Cameroon
      • Central African Republic
      • Gabon
      • Zaïre

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000178680
Tropicos 13023566
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:469588-1
The Plant List ild-2475
Open Tree Of Life 3928579
NCBI Taxonomy 2708707
IPNI 469588-1
iNaturalist 122096
GBIF 5348704
Freebase /m/010hmrrl
EOL 642952
USDA GRIN 435468
Wikipedia Abrus_canescens

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plant species used by communities around Mabira and Mpanga Central Forest Reserves, Uganda Asiimwe S, Namukobe J, Byamukama R, Imalingat B Trop Med Health 29-Jun-2021
PMCID:PMC8243914
doi:10.1186/s41182-021-00341-z
PMID:34187581
Conservation and sustainable use of the medicinal Leguminosae plants from Angola Catarino S, Duarte MC, Costa E, Carrero PG, Romeiras MM PeerJ 23-May-2019
PMCID:PMC6535223
doi:10.7717/peerj.6736
PMID:31198619

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