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1) Andropogon virginicus L. 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: Anatherum virgatum (Desv.) Desv., Anatherum virgatum (Desv. ex Ham.) Desv., Anatherum virginicum (L.) Spreng., Anatherum virginicum (L.) Desv., nom. illeg., non Anatherum virginicum (L.) Spreng., Anatherum virginicum subvar. tetrastachyum (Elliott) Roberty, Andropogon curtisianus Steud., Andropogon dissitiflorum Michx., Andropogon dissitiflorus Michx., Andropogon eriophorus Scheele, nom. illeg., non Andropogon eriophorus Willd., Andropogon glaucescens Schltdl. ex Hack., Andropogon leucostachyus Kunth, Andropogon louisianae Steud., Andropogon tetrastachyus Elliott, Andropogon vaginatus Elliott, Andropogon vaginatus J. Presl, nom. illeg., non Andropogon vaginatus Elliott, Andropogon virgatus Desv., nom. illeg., non Andropogon vaginatus Elliott, Andropogon virginicus f. virginicus, Andropogon virginicus subsp. genuinus Hack., Andropogon virginicus subvar. ditior Hack., Andropogon virginicus var. genuinus Fernald & Griscom, Andropogon virginicus var. tetrastachyus (Elliott) Hack., Andropogon virginicus var. vaginatus (Elliott) Alph. Wood, Andropogon virginicus var. viridis Hack., Cinna lateralis Walter, Dimeiostemon tetrastachys Raf. ex B.D. Jacks., Dimeiostemon vaginatus Raf. ex B.D. Jacks., Holcus virginicus Muhl. ex Steud., Sorghum virginicum (L.) Kuntze) (named for Moses Ashley Curtis, 1808–1872.

References regarding Andropogon virginicus L. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Species Plantarum
· Flora Caroliniana, secundum … (1788)
· Flora Boreali-Americana (1803)
· Plantarum Minus Cognitarum Pugillus (1815)
· A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia (1816)
· Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (1815)
· Reliquiae Haenkeanae (1830)
· Mémoires de la Société d’Agriculture, Sciences et Arts d’Angers (1831)
· Nomenclator Botanicus. Editio secunda (1840)
· Flora (1844)
· Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum (1854)
· A Class-book of Botany (1861)
· Flora Brasiliensis (1883)
· Monographiae Phanerogamarum (1889)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Index Kewensis (1893)
· Flora of the Southeastern United States … (1903)
· Contributions from the United States National Herbarium (1908)
· Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1926)
· Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences (1933)
· American Journal of Botany (1934)
· Rhodora (1935)
· Rhodora (1940)
· Boissiera. Mémoires du Conservatoire de Botanique et de l’Institut de Botanique Systématique de l’Université de Genève (1960)
· Journal of the Arnold Arboretum (1983)

2) Andropogon virginicus L. var. virginicus is another plant having the following synonyms: Anatherum virginicum subvar. tetrastachyum (Ell.) Roberty, Andropogon curtisianus Steud., Andropogon dissitiflorus Michx., Andropogon eriophorus Scheele, nom. illeg., non Andropogon eriophorus Willd., Andropogon tetrastachyus Elliott, Andropogon vaginatus Elliott, Andropogon vaginatus J. Presl, nom. illeg., non Andropogon vaginatus Elliott, Andropogon virginicus subvar. genuinus Hack., Andropogon virginicus var. genuinus Fernald & Griscom, Andropogon virginicus var. tetrastachyus (Ell.) Hackel, Andropogon virginicus var. vaginatus (Elliott) Alph. Wood, Cinna lateralis Walter, Dimeiostemon vaginatus Elliott ex B.D. Jacks.) (dedicated to the American botanist Moses Ashley Curtis, 1808–1872, specialist in fungi and lichens, plant collector in Northern America, see John H. Barnhart (1871–1949), Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 1: 406. Boston 1965, Stafleu and Cowan, Taxonomic Literature. 1: 573–574. Utrecht 1976, Frans A. Stafleu and Erik A. Mennega, Taxonomic Literature. Supplement IV. 515–517. 1997, S. Lenley et al., Catalog of the Manuscript and Archival Collections and Index to the Correspondence of John Torrey. Library of the New York Botanical Garden. 451. 1973, Jeannette E. Graustein, Thomas Nuttall, Naturalist. Explorations in America, 1808–1841. Harvard University Press 1967..

References regarding Andropogon virginicus L. var. virginicus for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Flora Caroliniana, secundum … (1788)
· Flora Boreali-Americana (1803)
· Plantarum Minus Cognitarum Pugillus (1815)
· Reliquiae Haenkeanae (1830)
· A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia (1816)
· Flora (1844)
· Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum (1854)
· A Classbook of Botany (1861)
· Monographiae Phanerogamarum (1889)
· Index Kewensis (1893)
· Rhodora (1935)
· Boissiera. Mémoires du Conservatoire de Botanique et de l’Institut de Botanique Systématique de l’Université de Genève (1960)

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