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Internal ID UUID64400766f2acc552852194
Scientific name Adenia spinosa
Authority Burtt Davy
First published in Man. Pl. Transvaal 1: 222 (1926)

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Language Common/alternative name
English spiny greenstem
Afrikaans doringbobbejaangif
Afrikaans stekelrige bobbejaangif

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  • Africa
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Botswana
      • Northern Provinces

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000520108
Tropicos 24200820
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:674182-1
The Plant List kew-2621597
Open Tree Of Life 1018846
NCBI Taxonomy 387549
IUCN Red List 141549828
IPNI 674182-1
iNaturalist 579086
GBIF 5527612

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Medicinal Plants Traded in Informal Herbal Medicine Markets of the Limpopo Province, South Africa Rasethe MT, Semenya SS, Maroyi A Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 16-Apr-2019
PMCID:PMC6500648
doi:10.1155/2019/2609532
PMID:31118951
Ethnobotanical study of curative plants used by traditional healers to treat rhinitis in the Limpopo Province, South Africa Semenya SS, Maroyi A Afr Health Sci 01-Dec-2018
PMCID:PMC6354866
doi:10.4314/ahs.v18i4.29
PMID:30766574
Plants Used by Bapedi Traditional Healers to Treat Asthma and Related Symptoms in Limpopo Province, South Africa Semenya SS, Maroyi A Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 19-Jul-2018
PMCID:PMC6077574
doi:10.1155/2018/2183705
PMID:30108649
Ribosome-Inactivating and Related Proteins Schrot J, Weng A, Melzig MF Toxins (Basel) 08-May-2015
PMCID:PMC4448163
doi:10.3390/toxins7051556
PMID:26008228

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