Salt water couch: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Salt water couch in English is the name of a plant defined with Paspalum vaginatum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Digitaria foliosa Lag. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Scrinia Florae Selectae (1887)
· Flore d’Oware (1807)
· Genera et species plantarum (1816)
· Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum (1854)
· Icones plantarum formosanarum nec non et contributiones ad floram formosanam. (1918)
· Révision des Graminées (1829)
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