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

1) Shankhpushpi in India is the name of a plant defined with Convolvulus pluricaulis in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices.

2) Shankhpushpi is also identified with Convolvulus prostratus It has the synonym Ipomoea microphylla Roth (etc.).

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

· J. Cytol. Genet. (1978)
· Diagnoses plantarum orientalium novarum (1856)
· Choisy, Jacques Denys (1799–1859), (1799)
· Convolvulaceae orientales (1834)

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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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