A preliminary checklist of Xhosa names for trees growing in Transkei

Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation

 
 
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Title A preliminary checklist of Xhosa names for trees growing in Transkei
 
Creator Johnson, Colin T.
 
Subject — ethnobotany; Transkei; trees; vernacular names
Description Xhosa names for 284 of the 392 tree taxa recorded for Transkei are listed. The semantics of the common names are discussed. The main moulding forces for these names were found to be: tree habit, characteristics shared with animals, medicinal uses and social or historic events.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 1990-10-17
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/abc.v20i2.908
 
Source Bothalia; Vol 20, No 2 (1990); 147-152 2311-9284 0006-8241
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 1990 Colin T. Johnson https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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