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

Sona jara in India is the name of a plant defined with Heteropogon contortus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Sorghum contortum (L.) Kuntze (among others).

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

· Grasses of Burma (1960)
· Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum (1854)
· Enum. Pl. (1933)
· Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. (1968)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzenge schichte und Pflanzengeographie (1885)
· The Flora of British India (1864)

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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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