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

Premna herbacea Roxb. 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: Gumira herbacea Kuntze, Gumira herbacea (Roxb.) Kuntze, Premna acaulis (F. Muell.) Merr., Premna acaulis Wall., Premna herbacea Roxb., Premna nana Collett & Hemsl., Premna obovata Merr., Premna sessilifolia H.J. Lam, Pygmaeopremna herbacea (Roxb.) Moldenke, Pygmaeopremna herbacea var. thailandica Moldenke, Pygmaeopremna humilis Merr., Pygmaeopremna nana (Collett & Hemsl.) Moldenke, Pygmaeopremna sessilifolia (H.J. Lam) Moldenke, Pygmaeopremna subacaulis (F. Muell.) Moldenke, Tatea acaulis F. Muell., Tatea herbacea (Roxb.) Junell, Tatea humilis (Merr.) Junell, Tatea subacaulis F. Muell.) (Pygmaeopremna Merrill, Greek pygmaios ‘dwarfish’ and the genus Premna L., Greek premnon ‘the stump of a tree, a tree-trunk’, see E.D. Merrill, in Philippine Journal of Science. 5: 225. Manila (Aug.) 1910..

References regarding Premna herbacea Roxb. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Numer. List (1776)
· Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. South Australia (1883)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Philippine Journal of Science (1910)
· Phytologia (1941)
· Known Geogr. Distrib. Verbenac. & Avicenniac. (1942)
· Journal of the Arnold Arboretum (1951)
· Phytologia (1959)
· Premna

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