Calliandra humilis

Calliandra humilis (common name dwarf stickpea) is a species of flowering plants of the genus Calliandra in the family Fabaceae.

Calliandra humilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Rosids
Order:
Fabales
Family:
Fabaceae
Genus:
Calliandra
Species:
C. humilis
Binomial name
Calliandra humilis
Synonyms[1]
  • Acacia humilis Schltdl.
  • Anneslia herbacea (A.Gray) Britton & Rose
  • Anneslia humilis Britton & Rose
  • Calliandra herbacea A.Gray
  • Calliandra herbacea Engelm.
  • Calliandra humilis B.L.Turner
  • Feuilleea humilis Kuntze

Uses

The Zuni people use the powdered root of this plant three times a day for rashes.[2]

gollark: Yes.
gollark: Wikipedia has this nice statement of it, which is obviously true because Wikipedia says it.
gollark: It's not that one is "not defined", or that you can determine one but not the other, but that if you measure it you must trade off accuracy in one for the other.
gollark: ...
gollark: Probably not, as as far as I know the conventional name is the "Heisenberg uncertainty principle".

References
  1. The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, retrieved 19 June 2016
  2. Camazine, Scott and Robert A. Bye 1980 A Study Of The Medical Ethnobotany Of The Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2:365-388 (p. 376)


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.