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

Congress grass in English is the name of a plant defined with Parthenium hysterophorus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Villanova bipinnatifida Ortega) (Greek hysteraios ‘next, following’, hysteros ‘latter, behind’, hystera, hystere ‘womb, uterus’ and phoros ‘bearing, carrying’. (among others).

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

· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1988)
· Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress Association (1984)
· Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
· American Journal of Botany (1979)
· Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1994)
· Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum, quae aut sponte (1797)

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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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