''Hydnocarpus kurzii'' is a species of
plant in the family
Achariaceae. It is found in
India and
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
.
Working for
Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories, Pharmacist Frederick B. Power researched various species of chaulmoogra seeds from 1904. Power and colleagues created Chaulmoogric acid from seeds of what was then called the ''Taraktogenos kurzii'' tree, which had the formula
C18H32O2.
References
kurzii
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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