Biology (plants and animals)

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

Capim-penacho in South America is the name of a plant defined with Eragrostis ciliaris in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Poa pulchella Parl., nom. illeg., non Poa pulchella Salisb.) (after the French naturalist Jean Baptiste Georges Geneviève Marcellin Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1778–1846, microscopist, traveller, geographer and explorer, with Baudin in Australia 1801, on the Isle de Bourbon and Canary Islands 1801–1802, took part in the voyage of the Coquille commanded by Louis-Isidor Duperrey (1786–1865), joint author of Dictionnaire classique d’histoire naturelle. Paris 1822–1831. See John H. Barnhart, Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 1: 224. 1965 (among others).

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

· Grasses of North America for Farmers and Students (1896)
· Report. Botanical Exchange Club. London. (1916)
· Blumea (1992)
· Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1931)
· Grasses of Burma (1960)
· Tentamen Florae Abyssinicae … (1850)

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