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Brucea antidysenterica J.F. Mill. Simaroubaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Africa

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Brucea antidysenterica J.F. Mill.: Brucea abyssinica Spreng., Brucea erythraeae Chiov., Brucea ferruginea L’Hér., Brucea salutaris A. Chev., Lussa antidysenterica Kuntze, Trichilia siderotricha Chiov.

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Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y., Njoroge, G.N. (2021). Brucea antidysenterica J.F. Mill. Simaroubaceae. In: Bussmann, R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Africa. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38386-2_29

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