South sea arrowroot: 1 definition

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

South sea arrowroot in English is the name of a plant defined with Tacca leontopetaloides in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Tacca pinnatifida subsp. eupinnatifida Limpr. (among others).

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

· Journal of a voyage to the South Seas (1784)
· Systema Vegetabilium (1829)
· Loudon’s Hortus Britannicus. (1830)
· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788)
· Blumea (1972)
· Biblioth. Bot. (1915)

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