Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Dronkgras in South Africa is the name of a plant defined with Crotalaria burkeana in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Crotalaria burkeana var. sparsipila Harv..

2) Dronkgras is also identified with Lolium temulentum It has the synonym Craepalia temulenta (L.) Schrank (etc.).

3) Dronkgras in Southern Africa is also identified with Equisetum ramosissimum It has the synonym Hippochaete ramosissima subsp. debilis (Roxb. ex Vaucher) Á. Löve & D. Löve (etc.).

4) Dronkgras is also identified with Paspalum scrobiculatum It has the synonym Paspalum barbatum Schumach., nom. illeg., non Paspalum barbatum (Trin.) Schult. (etc.).

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

· Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana, ser. 2 (1990)
· Compendio della Flora Italiana (1884)
· Fl. Deut. Volk (1912)
· Species Plantarum, Editio Secunda (1762)
· Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus (1786)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)

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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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