Platanillo: 1 definition
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: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Platanillo in Ecuador is the name of a plant defined with Maranta arundinacea in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Stromanthe tonckat (Aubl.) Eichler (among others).
2) Platanillo is also identified with Oenothera laciniata It has the synonym Raimannia mexicana (Spach) Wooton & L.A. Standl. (etc.).
3) Platanillo is also identified with Oenothera multicaulis It has the synonym Hartmannia boliviana Rusby (etc.).
4) Platanillo is also identified with Oenothera tetraptera It has the synonym Hartmannia macrantha Spach (etc.).
5) Platanillo in Mexico is also identified with Parmentiera aculeata It has the synonym Crescentia edulis Desv. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Nouvelles Annales du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle (1835)
· Annales Botanici Fennici (2005)
· Journal of Food Science (2002)
· Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1913)
· Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, or ‘Descriptions and figures of a select number of unpublished East Indian plantsâ€� (1832)
· Ceiba (2003)
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