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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)

Pennisetum polystachion (L.) Schult 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: Cenchrus retusus Sw., Cenchrus setosus Sw., Gymnothrix geniculata Schult., Gymnotrix geniculata Schult., Gymnotrix polystachya (L.) Sw. ex Trin., Panicum barbatum Roxb., nom. illeg., non Panicum barbatum Lam., Panicum cauda-ratti Schumach., also cauda ratti, Panicum cenchroides Schumach., Panicum cenchroides Lam., nom. illeg., non Panicum cenchroides Rich., Panicum densispica Poir., Panicum erubescens Willd., Panicum fuscescens Willd. ex Nees, Panicum imberbe Poir., Panicum imberbe var. purpurascens (Kunth) Döll, Panicum longisetum Poir., Panicum longisetum Torr., Panicum polystachion L., Panicum subangustum Schumach., Panicum triticoides Poir., Pennisetum alopecuroides Desv. ex Ham., nom. illeg., non Pennisetum alopecuroides (L.) Spreng., Pennisetum alopecuroides (L.) Spreng., Pennisetum amethystinum P. Beauv., Pennisetum barbatum Schult., Pennisetum borbonicum Kunth, Pennisetum breve Nees, Pennisetum caudaratti (Schumach.) Franch., Pennisetum cenchroides Rich. ex Pers., Pennisetum ciliatum Parl. ex Hook., Pennisetum dasistachyum Desv., Pennisetum elegans Nees ex Steud., Pennisetum erubescens (Willd.) Desv. ex Ham., Pennisetum erubescens (Willd.) Link, nom. illeg., non Pennisetum erubescens (Willd.) Desv. ex Ham., Pennisetum flavescens J. Presl, Pennisetum gabonense Franch., Pennisetum geniculatum (Poir.) Jacq., Pennisetum gracile Benth., Pennisetum hamiltonii Steud., Pennisetum hirsutum Nees, Pennisetum indicum var. purpurascens (Kunth) Kuntze, Pennisetum multiflorum E. Fourn., Pennisetum nicaraguense E. Fourn., Pennisetum pallidum Nees, Pennisetum pedicellatum sensu Senaratna, Pennisetum polystachion subsp. setosum (Sw.) Brunken, Pennisetum polystachyum (L.) Schult., Pennisetum purpurascens Kunth, Pennisetum reversum Hack. ex Büttner, Pennisetum richardii Kunth, Pennisetum setosum (Sw.) Rich., Pennisetum setosum var. breve (Nees) Döll, Pennisetum sieberi Kunth, Pennisetum stenostachyum A. Peter, Pennisetum subangustum (Schumach.) Stapf & C.E. Hubb., Pennisetum tenuispiculatum Steud., Pennisetum triticoides (Poir.) Roem. & Schult., Pennisetum uniflorum Kunth, Setaria cenchroides (Rich.) Roem. & Schult., Setaria erubescens (Willd.) P. Beauv., Setaria purpurascens Kunth.

References regarding Pennisetum polystachion (L.) Schult for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Systema Naturae, Editio Decima (1759)
· Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus (1788)
· Actes de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris (1792)
· Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique … Botanique (1798)
· Synopseos Plantarum (1805)
· Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Berolinensis Altera
· Essai d’une Nouvelle Agrostographie (1812)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or a catalogue … (1814)
· Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (1815)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (1816)
· Systema Vegetabilium, editio decima sexta (1817)
· American Journal of Science (1822)
· Mantissa (1824)
· Prodromus Plantarum Indiae Occidentalis (1825)
· De Graminibus Paniceis (1826)
· Beskrivelse af Guineeiske planter (1827)
· Hortus Regius Botanicus Berolinensis (1827)
· Kongel. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Naturvidensk. Math. Afh. (1828)
· Révision des Graminées (1829)
· Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum (1829)
· Révision des Graminées (1830)
· Reliquiae Haenkeanae (1830)
· Mémoires de la Société d’Agriculture, Sciences et Arts d’Angers (1831)
· Nomenclator Botanicus. Editio secunda (1841)
· Niger Flora (1849)
· Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum (1854)
· Flora Brasiliensis (1877)
· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (1880)
· Mexicanas Plantas (1886)
· Verhandlungen des Botanischen Vereins für die Provinz Brandenburg und die angrenzenden Länder (1890)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle d’Autun (1895)
· Contributions à la flore du Congo Français (1896)
· Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis, Beihefte (1930)
· Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew (1933)
· Grasses of Ceylon (1956)
· Grasses of Burma (1960)
· Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (1979)
· Micronesica (1982)
· Fl. Novo-Galic. (1983)
· Cytologia (1989)
· Journal of the Indian Botanical Society (1989)

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