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

False gentian in English is the name of a plant defined with Raphionacme hirsuta in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Brachystelma hirsutum E. Mey. (among others).

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

· Botanical Magazine (2343)
· Commentariorum de Plantis Africae Australioris (1838)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1980)
· London Journal of Botany (1842)
· Flowering Plants of South Africa (1942)

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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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