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Balanites rotundifolia

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Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
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Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
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Internal ID UUID643fed4b64f49734703982
Scientific name Balanites rotundifolia
Authority (Tiegh.) Blatt.
First published in Rec. Bot. Surv. India 8: 109 (1919)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Balanites gillettii var. renifolia Cufod. Senckenberg. Biol. 39: 303. 1958
Agialid rotundifolia Tiegh. Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. , sér. 9, 4: 231 (1906)

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Arabic هجليج مستدير الأوراق

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Balanites rotundifolia var. rotundifolia Unknown
Balanites rotundifolia var. scillin (Chiov.) Sands Kew Bull. 56: 97 (2001)
Balanites rotundifolia var. setulifer Sands Kew Bull. 56: 99 (2001)

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Djibouti
      • Ethiopia
      • Somalia
      • Sudan

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000313648
Tropicos 100152034
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:873118-1
The Plant List kew-19474
Open Tree Of Life 3902307
NCBI Taxonomy 1670835
IPNI 873118-1
GBIF 7309913
Wikipedia Balanites_rotundifolia

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Scientific Literature Top

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Indigenous communities’ perceptions reveal threats and management options of wild edible plants in semiarid lands of northwestern Kenya Oluoch WA, Whitney C, Termote C, Borgemeister C, Schmitt CB J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 04-May-2023
PMCID:PMC10161424
doi:10.1186/s13002-023-00584-6
PMID:37143165
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
Ethnobotanical investigation of medicinal plants in Buska Mountain range, Hamar district, Southwestern Ethiopia Bekele M, Woldeyes F, Lulekal E, Bekele T, Demissew S J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 19-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9484237
doi:10.1186/s13002-022-00558-0
PMID:36123732
Medicinal plants used in traditional treatment of malaria in Ethiopia: a review of ethnomedicine, anti-malarial and toxicity studies Nigussie G, Wale M Malar J 10-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9463824
doi:10.1186/s12936-022-04264-w
PMID:36088324
Antidiarrheal Effect of 80% Methanol Extract and Fractions of the Leaves of Ocimum lamiifolium in Swiss Albino Mice Adela Alemu M, Andargie Y, Sisay W, Mengie T, Tessema Desta G, Ayalew Tessema T, Belete Abebe R, Melese Birru E, Tarekegn Gebyaw S, Adugna Ayanaw M Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 26-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9162844
doi:10.1155/2022/6838295
PMID:35664936
Ethnopharmacological Study of Medicinal Plants Used for the Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases and Their Associated Risk Factors in sub-Saharan Africa Odukoya JO, Odukoya JO, Mmutlane EM, Ndinteh DT Plants (Basel) 23-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9143319
doi:10.3390/plants11101387
PMID:35631812
Traditional medicinal plants used in the treatment of tuberculosis in Ethiopia: A systematic review Getachew S, Medhin G, Asres A, Abebe G, Ameni G Heliyon 18-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9130528
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09478
PMID:35647341
Anti-malarial plants in Ethiopia and their activities on drug-resistant malaria Sema YA, Waktola TA FEMS Microbes 12-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC10117797
doi:10.1093/femsmc/xtac001
PMID:37332492
Studies on Activities and Chemical Characterization of Medicinal Plants in Search for New Antimalarials: A Ten Year Review on Ethnopharmacology Ceravolo IP, Aguiar AC, Adebayo JO, Krettli AU Front Pharmacol 22-Sep-2021
PMCID:PMC8493299
doi:10.3389/fphar.2021.734263
PMID:34630109
Antiplasmodial Activity of the Crude Extract and Solvent Fractions of Stem Barks of Gardenia ternifolia in Plasmodium berghei-Infected Mice Nureye D, Sano M, Fekadu M, Duguma T, Tekalign E Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 01-Sep-2021
PMCID:PMC8429003
doi:10.1155/2021/9625169
PMID:34512786
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
The inventory of camel feed resource and the evaluation of its chemical composition in south‐east rangelands of Ethiopia Habte M, Eshetu M, Andualem D, Maryo M, Legesse A Vet Med Sci 22-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC8294363
doi:10.1002/vms3.471
PMID:33750028
Herbal medicine used by the community of Koneba district in Afar Regional State, Northeastern Ethiopia Zeynu A, Wondimu T, Demissew S Afr Health Sci 01-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC8356579
doi:10.4314/ahs.v21i1.51
PMID:34394323
Medicinal plants as a fight against murine blood-stage malaria Dkhil MA, Al-Quraishy S, Al-Shaebi EM, Abdel-Gaber R, Thagfan FA, Qasem MA Saudi J Biol Sci 19-Dec-2020
PMCID:PMC7938113
doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.12.014
PMID:33732056
New records of a lost species and a geographic range expansion for sengis in the Horn of Africa Heritage S, Rayaleh H, Awaleh DG, Rathbun GB PeerJ 18-Aug-2020
PMCID:PMC7441985
doi:10.7717/peerj.9652
PMID:32879790

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