Erythrorchis altissima: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)Erythrorchis altissima (Blume) Blume 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: Cyrtosia altissima Blume, Galeola altissima (Blume) Rchb.f., Haematorchis altissima (Blume) Blume) (Cyrtosia Blume, from the Greek kyrtos ‘curved, arched, swelling’, kyrtosis ‘bulging, convexity’, referring to the pollen mass, Galeola Loureiro, Latin galeola ‘a hollow vessel shaped like a helmet’, the diminutive of galea, ae ‘a helmet’, possibly referring to the flowers when not fully open or to the shape of the labellum, see J. de Loureiro, Flora cochinchinensis: sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes. 520. Ulyssipone [Lisboa] 1790..
References regarding Erythrorchis altissima (Blume) Blume for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:
· Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië (1825)
· Rumphia (1835)
· Rumphia (1849)
· Xenia Orchid. (1865)
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