Biology (plants and animals)

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

Ku shu in China is the name of a plant defined with Bouteloua 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 Eutriana hirta (Kunth) Trin.) (named for the American (California) (b. in Germany) botanist Henry Nicholas Bolander, 1831 (or 1832)–1897, plant collector (California), ca. 1867–1872 with Albert Kellogg (1813–1887), 1873–1874 with Albert Kellogg et al. (California), Bolander was a friend and correspondent of Charles Léo Lesquereux (1806–1889), author of A catalogue of the plants growing in the vicinity of San Francisco. San Francisco 1870. See J.H. Barnhart, Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 1: 212. 1965 (among others).

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

· Variedades de Ciencias, Literatura y Artes (1805)
· De Quibusdam Chloridis Speciebus (1808)
· Systema Vegetabilium, editio decima sexta (1825)
· North American Flora (1939)
· Phytologia (1983)
· Linnaea (1847)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Ku shu, for example pregnancy safety, health benefits, extract dosage, side effects, diet and recipes, chemical composition, have a look at these references.

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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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Partial matches: Ku, Shu.

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