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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Reed in English is the name of a plant defined with Arundo donax in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Aira bengalensis (Retz.) J.F. Gmel. (among others).

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

· Flora des Nordostdeutschen Flachlandes (1898)
· J. C. Rohlings Deutschlands Flora (1823)
· Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica (1941)
· Flora Analítica de la Provincia de Valencia (1987)
· The Flora of British India (1896)
· Flora Pyrenaea (1901)

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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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