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Internal ID UUID643ffa31de9bc048637391
Scientific name Bridelia cathartica
Authority Bertol.
First published in Mem. Reale Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna 5: 476 (1854)

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Language Common/alternative name
Afrikaans blousoetbessie

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Bridelia cathartica subsp. cathartica Unknown
Bridelia cathartica subsp. melanthesoides (Klotzsch ex Baill.) J.Léonard Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 25: 364 (1955)

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Ethiopia
      • Somalia
      • Sudan
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Malawi
      • Mozambique
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Botswana
      • Caprivi Strip
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Northern Provinces
      • Swaziland
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Zaïre

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000416794
Tropicos 12802891
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:340136-1
The Plant List kew-24488
Open Tree Of Life 637991
NCBI Taxonomy 577017
IUCN Red List 135815493
IPNI 340136-1
iNaturalist 340299
GBIF 3076233
EOL 1149073
USDA GRIN 312596

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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
Bridelia ferruginea Benth.; An ethnomedicinal, phytochemical, pharmacological and toxicological review Yeboah GN, Owusu FW, Archer MA, Kyene MO, Kumadoh D, Ayertey F, Mintah SO, Atta-Adjei Junior P, Appiah AA Heliyon 23-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9445295
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10366
PMID:36082325
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
Medicinal plants sold for treatment of bacterial and parasitic diseases in humans in Maputo city markets, Mozambique Barbosa F, Hlashwayo D, Sevastyanov V, Chichava V, Mataveia A, Boane E, Cala A BMC Complement Med Ther 23-Jan-2020
PMCID:PMC7076832
doi:10.1186/s12906-019-2809-9
PMID:32020866
Field data on Vegetation Structure and Effects of Human Use of the Dambos Ecosystem in Northern Mozambique Mbanze AA, Mário AM, Rivaes R, Ribeiro-Barros AI, Ribeiro NS Data Brief 12-Sep-2019
PMCID:PMC6811917
doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104454
PMID:31667226
Lippia javanica (Burm.f.) Spreng.: Traditional and Commercial Uses and Phytochemical and Pharmacological Significance in the African and Indian Subcontinent Maroyi A Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 01-Jan-2017
PMCID:PMC5237467
doi:10.1155/2017/6746071
PMID:28115974
Ethnobotanical Study of Plants Used in the Management of HIV/AIDS-Related Diseases in Livingstone, Southern Province, Zambia Chinsembu KC Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 16-Mar-2016
PMCID:PMC4812351
doi:10.1155/2016/4238625
PMID:27069489
Traditional use of medicinal plants in south-central Zimbabwe: review and perspectives Maroyi A J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 04-May-2013
PMCID:PMC3653698
doi:10.1186/1746-4269-9-31
PMID:23642285
Screening of Tanzanian medicinal plants for anti-Candida activity Runyoro DK, Matee MI, Ngassapa OD, Joseph CC, Mbwambo ZH BMC Complement Altern Med 30-Mar-2006
PMCID:PMC1481531
doi:10.1186/1472-6882-6-11
PMID:16571139

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