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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Ethnobotanical Plant Phyllanthus brasiliensis

Common Name
Mawanting, Tikum, Parapara

Activities

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Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Piscicide Guiana(Patamona) Famshawe, D.B. 1949. Checklist of the indigenous woody plants of British Guiana. Forestry Bulletin No. 3. Forest Dept., British Guina.
Piscicide Brazil Altschul, Siri Von Reis. 1973. Drugs and foods from little-known plants. Harvard Univ. Press
Piscicide Brazil(Maku) *
Piscicide Guiana(Wapisiana) Famshawe, D.B. 1949. Checklist of the indigenous woody plants of British Guiana. Forestry Bulletin No. 3. Forest Dept., British Guina.
Piscicide Guiana(Arawak) Famshawe, D.B. 1949. Checklist of the indigenous woody plants of British Guiana. Forestry Bulletin No. 3. Forest Dept., British Guina.