Proiphys amboinensis: 1 definition

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

Proiphys amboinensis (L.) Herb. 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: Amaryllis rotundifolia Lam., Cearia amboinensis (L.) Dumort., Crinum nervosum Willd. ex Roxb., nom. illeg., Crinum nervosum L’Hér., Eurycles alata Sweet, Eurycles amboinensis (L.) Loudon, Eurycles amboinensis (L.) Lindl. ex Loudon, Eurycles australasica (Ker Gawl.) G. Don, Eurycles australis (Spreng.) Schult. & Schult.f., nom. illeg., Eurycles coronata Sweet, Eurycles javanica M. Roem., Eurycles nervosa G. Don ex Loudon, Eurycles nuda Sweet, Eurycles rotundifolia M. Roem., Eurycles sylvestris Salisb. ex Schult. & Schult.f., Pancratium amboinense L., Pancratium australasicum Ker Gawl., Pancratium australe Spreng., nom. illeg., Pancratium nervifolium Salisb., Pancratium ovatifolium Stokes, Stemonix nervosus (L’Hér.) Raf.) (Eurycles Salisb. ex Schultes & Schultes f., from the Greek eurys ‘large, broad’ and kleio ‘to close, to shut, to shut up’, referring to the often imperfect cup, the tube of the flower is closed up by the broad corona, see Johann Jakob Roemer and Josef August Schultes, Systema Vegetabilium. 7(2): lvi, 909. 1830.

References regarding Proiphys amboinensis (L.) Herb. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ (1824)
· Sweet's Hortus Britannicus, or ‘a catalogue of all the plants indigenous or cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain, arranged according to the natural system’ (1830)
· Systema Vegetabilium (1830)
· Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. (1847)

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