Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Air plant in English is the name of a plant defined with Bryophyllum pinnatum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Verea pinnata (Lam.) Spreng. (among others).

2) Air plant is also identified with Kalanchoe pinnata It has the synonym Bryophyllum pinnatum Kurz (etc.).

3) Air plant is also identified with Tillandsia usneoides It has the synonym Renealmia pendula C.F. Gaertn. (etc.).

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

· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1828)
· Species Plantarum. (1799)
· Illustration de la Flore d’Égypte (1887)
· The Paradisus Londinensis (1805)
· Cact. Succ. J. (2002)
· . Natural history (1871)

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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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Partial matches: Plant.

Starts with: Air plant kalanchoe.

Full-text: Air plant kalanchoe, Appugida.

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Atharvaveda and Charaka Samhita (by Laxmi Maji)

Vanaspati (Plants) used in Veda < [Chapter 2 - The nature of treatment for diseases in the Ancient era]

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