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Croton pseudopulchellus

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Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
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Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
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Internal ID UUID644036e3b0774706642433
Scientific name Croton pseudopulchellus
Authority Pax
First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 34: 371 (1904)

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Language Common/alternative name
English small lavender fever-berry
Afrikaans kleinlaventelkoorsbessie
Afrikaans sandkoorsbessie
Swahili mkunapaa
Zulu uhubeshane

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Somalia
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Malawi
      • Mozambique
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Caprivi Strip
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Namibia
      • Northern Provinces
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Burkina
      • Ivory Coast
      • Mali
      • Nigeria

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000932085
Tropicos 12802909
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:343300-1
The Plant List kew-50919
Open Tree Of Life 464018
Observations.org 324857
NCBI Taxonomy 493964
IPNI 343300-1
iNaturalist 583078
GBIF 3058146
EOL 1146698
Elurikkus 358995

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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
Antiplasmodial, antimalarial activities and toxicity of African medicinal plants: a systematic review of literature Tajbakhsh E, Kwenti TE, Kheyri P, Nezaratizade S, Lindsay DS, Khamesipour F Malar J 25-Aug-2021
PMCID:PMC8390284
doi:10.1186/s12936-021-03866-0
PMID:34433465
Ethnobotanical study of plants used by the traditional healers to treat malaria in Mogovolas district, northern Mozambique Manuel L, Bechel A, Noormahomed EV, Hlashwayo DF, Madureira MD Heliyon 18-Dec-2020
PMCID:PMC7753128
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05746
PMID:33364508
The traditional use of southern African medicinal plants for the treatment of bacterial respiratory diseases: A review of the ethnobotany and scientific evaluations Cock IE, Van Vuuren SF J Ethnopharmacol 27-Jul-2020
PMCID:PMC7383173
doi:10.1016/j.jep.2020.113204
PMID:32730881
Essential Oils and Health Ramsey JT, Shropshire BC, Nagy TR, Chambers KD, Li Y, Korach KS Yale J Biol Med 29-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7309671
PMID:32607090
Volatiles from African species of Croton (Euphorbiaceae), including new diterpenes in essential oil from Croton gratissimus Sadgrove NJ, Madeley LG, Van Wyk BE Heliyon 23-Oct-2019
PMCID:PMC6820369
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02677
PMID:31687511
Croton gratissimus leaf extracts inhibit cancer cell growth by inducing caspase 3/7 activation with additional anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities Mfotie Njoya E, Eloff JN, McGaw LJ BMC Complement Altern Med 14-Nov-2018
PMCID:PMC6236960
doi:10.1186/s12906-018-2372-9
PMID:30428879
Screening of Plants Used as Traditional Anticancer Remedies in Mkuranga and Same Districts, Tanzania, Using Brine Shrimp Toxicity Bioassay Matata DZ, Ngassapa OD, Machumi F, Moshi MJ Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 14-Nov-2018
PMCID:PMC6261239
doi:10.1155/2018/3034612
PMID:30538758
Prospects for malaria control through manipulation of mosquito larval habitats and olfactory-mediated behavioural responses using plant-derived compounds Muema JM, Bargul JL, Njeru SN, Onyango JO, Imbahale SS Parasit Vectors 17-Apr-2017
PMCID:PMC5392979
doi:10.1186/s13071-017-2122-8
PMID:28412962
matK-QR classifier: a patterns based approach for plant species identification More RP, Mane RC, Purohit HJ BioData Min 09-Dec-2016
PMCID:PMC5148893
doi:10.1186/s13040-016-0120-6
PMID:27990177
The Effects of Herbivory by a Mega- and Mesoherbivore on Tree Recruitment in Sand Forest, South Africa Lagendijk DD, Mackey RL, Page BR, Slotow R PLoS One 22-Mar-2011
PMCID:PMC3062551
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017983
PMID:21445345
Evaluation of selected South African ethnomedicinal plants as mosquito repellents against the Anopheles arabiensis mosquito in a rodent model Maharaj R, Maharaj V, Newmarch M, Crouch NR, Bhagwandin N, Folb PI, Pillay P, Gayaram R Malar J 28-Oct-2010
PMCID:PMC2988038
doi:10.1186/1475-2875-9-301
PMID:21029442

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