Biology (plants and animals)

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Matalote in Cuba is the name of a plant defined with Panicum maximum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757–1834), Novae plantarum species praesertim Indiae orientalis. Ex collectione doct. Benj. Heynii. 292. Halberstadii 1821 and M. Archer, Natural History Drawings in the India Office Library. 27–28, 79–80. London 1962, Isaac Henry Burkill, Chapters on the History of Botany in India. Delhi 1965, Stafleu and Cowan, Taxonomic Literature. 2: 188. 1979, R. Desmond, The European Discovery of the Indian Flora. Oxford 1992, Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and Horticulturists. London 1994, Gordon Douglas Rowley, A History of Succulent Plants. Strawberry Press, Mill Valley, California 1997. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Flora of the Lesser Antilles, Leeward and Windward Islands (1979)
· Eclogae Graminum Rariorum (1814)
· Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1930)
· Kongel. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Naturvidensk. Math. Afh. (1828)
· Biologia Plantarum (1994)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzenge schichte und Pflanzengeographie (1897)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Matalote, for example health benefits, side effects, diet and recipes, extract dosage, chemical composition, pregnancy safety, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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