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Internal ID UUID643fed451c2bd298196887
Scientific name Balanites glabra
Authority Mildbr. & Schltr.
First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 51: 163 (1913)

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Arabic هجليج أجرد

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Ethiopia
      • Somalia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000313493
Tropicos 50271932
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:873106-1
The Plant List kew-19457
Open Tree Of Life 6112542
NCBI Taxonomy 2487075
IUCN Red List 145397928
IPNI 873106-1
GBIF 8079239
Wikipedia Balanites_glabra

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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
Community composition and phyto-diversity assessment of ganda roba and ganda shabbo sites in Damota natural vegetation, eastern Ethiopia Hussein A Heliyon 20-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9634035
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11163
PMID:36339994
Diversity, Host Plants and Potential Distribution of Edible Saturniid Caterpillars in Kenya Kusia ES, Borgemeister C, Khamis FM, Copeland RS, Tanga CM, Ombura FL, Subramanian S Insects 01-Jul-2021
PMCID:PMC8305150
doi:10.3390/insects12070600
PMID:34357260
Nitrogen cycling in pastoral livestock systems in Sub‐Saharan Africa: knowns and unknowns Carbonell V, Merbold L, Díaz‐Pinés E, Dowling TP, Butterbach‐Bahl K Ecol Appl 10-Jun-2021
PMCID:PMC8459270
doi:10.1002/eap.2368
PMID:33938594
Conservation of Wild Food Plants and Their Potential for Combatting Food Insecurity in Kenya as Exemplified by the Drylands of Kitui County Mutie FM, Rono PC, Kathambi V, Hu GW, Wang QF Plants (Basel) 12-Aug-2020
PMCID:PMC7464302
doi:10.3390/plants9081017
PMID:32806636
Antimalarial Plants Used across Kenyan Communities Omara T Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 12-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7306085
doi:10.1155/2020/4538602
PMID:32617107
Ethnobotanical knowledge acquisition during daily chores: the firewood collection of pastoral Maasai girls in Southern Kenya Tian X J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 13-Jan-2017
PMCID:PMC5237272
doi:10.1186/s13002-016-0131-x
PMID:28086839
Medicinal plants potential and use by pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Erer Valley of Babile Wereda, Eastern Ethiopia Belayneh A, Asfaw Z, Demissew S, Bussa NF J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 22-Oct-2012
PMCID:PMC3549935
doi:10.1186/1746-4269-8-42
PMID:23082858

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