Klitsgras: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Klitsgras in South Africa is the name of a plant defined with Tragus berteronianus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Nazia aliena auct. non (Spreng.) Scribn. (among others).
2) Klitsgras is also identified with Setaria verticillata It has the synonym Panicum respiciens (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Hochst. ex Steud. (etc.).
3) Klitsgras in Southern Africa is also identified with Heteropogon contortus It has the synonym Andropogon secundus Willd. ex Griseb., nom. illeg., non Andropogon secundus Elliott (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1893)
· Mantissa (1824)
· Flore de France, ed. 3 (1805)
· Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana, ser. 2 (1989)
· Mémoires de l’Institut Égyptien (1887)
· Blumea (1994)
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