Andropogon schirensis: 1 definition

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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)

Andropogon schirensis Hochst. ex A. Rich. is the name of a plant defined in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in modern medicine, Ayurveda, and other local traditions or folk medicine. It has the following synonyms: Andropogon congoensis Franch., Andropogon dummeri Stapf, Andropogon schirensis Hochst., Andropogon schirensis var. angustifolius Stapf, also spelled angustifolia) (for the South African botanist Richard Arnold Dummer [formerly Dümmer], 1887–1922, botanical collector in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda, see J.H. Barnhart, Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 1: 477. 1965, T.W. Bossert, Biographical Dictionary of Botanists Represented in the Hunt Institute Portrait Collection. 109. 1972, Mary Gunn and Leslie E. Codd, Botanical exploration of southern Africa. 140–141. 1981, Hugh Neville Dixon (1861–1944), Uganda Mosses Collected by R. Dummer and Others. [Smithsonian Misc. Coll. lxix. no. 8] Washington 1918.

References regarding Andropogon schirensis Hochst. ex A. Rich. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Tentamen Florae Abyssinicae … (1850)
· Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle d’Autun (1895)
· Flora Capensis (1898)
· Flora of Tropical Africa (1919)
· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Belgique (1922)
· Kew Bulletin (1949)
· Cytologia (1954)
· Bothalia (1994)

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