Safed musali: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Safed musali in India is the name of a plant defined with Asparagus adscendens in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Protasparagus adscendens (Roxb.) Kamble (among others).
2) Safed musali is also identified with Asparagus racemosus It has the synonym Asparagopsis abyssinica Kunth (etc.).
3) Safed musali is also identified with Chlorophytum arundinaceum It has the synonym Anthericum tuberosum Hook.f., nom. illeg..
4) Safed musali is also identified with Chlorophytum tuberosum It has the synonym Liliago tuberosa (Roxb.) C. Presl (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ ed. 1832 (1832)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Flora of the British India (1892)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1876)
· Bombay Fl. (1861)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
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