Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Sambu gambi in Mali is the name of a plant defined with Eragrostis ciliaris in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Poa pulchella Parl., nom. illeg., non Poa pulchella Salisb.) (after the French naturalist Jean Baptiste Georges Geneviève Marcellin Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1778–1846, microscopist, traveller, geographer and explorer, with Baudin in Australia 1801, on the Isle de Bourbon and Canary Islands 1801–1802, took part in the voyage of the Coquille commanded by Louis-Isidor Duperrey (1786–1865), joint author of Dictionnaire classique d’histoire naturelle. Paris 1822–1831. See John H. Barnhart, Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 1: 224. 1965 (among others).

2) Sambu gambi is also identified with Eragrostis tremula It has the synonym Poa multiflora Roxb., nom. illeg., non Poa multiflora Forssk. (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (1791)
· Grasses of Ceylon (1956)
· Flora Orientalis (1884)
· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (1954)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Systema Vegetabilium (1817)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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Partial matches: Sambu, Campu.

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