Biology (plants and animals)

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Sporobolus indicus (L.) R. Br. var. flaccidus (Roem. & Schult.) Veldkamp is the name of a plant defined in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in modern medicine, Ayurveda, and other local traditions or folk medicine. It has the following synonyms: Agrostis diandra Retz., Agrostis elongata var. flaccida Roth, Spermachiton involutum Llanos, Sporobolus diandrus (Retz.) P. Beauv., Sporobolus diandrus var. diandrus, Sporobolus diandrus var. nanus Hook.f., Sporobolus indicus (L.) R. Br., Sporobolus indicus var. flaccidus (Roth, Sporobolus indicus var. diandrus (Retz.) Jovet & Guédès) Veldkamp, Sporobolus trimenii (Hook.f.) Senaratna, Vilfa diandra (Retz.) Trin., Vilfa erosa Trin., Vilfa retzii Steud.) (Vilfa retzii Steud. for the Swedish scientist Anders Jahan (Johan) Retzius, 1742–1821, botanist, lichenologist, bryologist, naturalist, entomologist, professor of natural history at the University of Lund, he did work in chemistry, botany, zoology, mineralogy and paleontology, his writings include Lectiones publicae de vermibus intestinalibus, imprimis humanis. Holmiae 1786, see Ethelyn Maria Tucker, Catalogue of the library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass. 1917–1933, J.H. Barnhart, Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 3: 146. 1965, Theodore W. Bossert, compil., Biographical Dictionary of Botanists Represented in the Hunt Institute Portrait Collection. 329. Boston, Mass. 1972, Vladislav Kruta, in D.S.B. 11: 379–381. 1981, Gerhard Rudolph, in D.S.B. 11: 381–383. 1981, Stafleu and Cowan, Taxonomic Literature. 4: 735–738. Utrecht 1983, Mariella Azzarello Di Misa, ed., Il Fondo Antico della Biblioteca dell’Orto Botanico di Palermo. 229. Regione Siciliana, Palermo 1988..

References regarding Sporobolus indicus (L.) R. Br. var. flaccidus (Roem. & Schult.) Veldkamp for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Observationes Botanicae (1789)
· Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae (1810)
· Essai d’une Nouvelle Agrostographie (1812)
· Systema Vegetabilium (1817)
· De Graminibus unifloris et sesquifloris (1824)
· Nomenclator Botanicus. Editio secunda (1840)
· Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg. Sixième Série. Sciences Mathématiques, Physiques et Naturelles. Seconde Partie: Sciences Naturelles (1840)
· Fragmentos de Algunas Plantas Filipinas (1851)
· A Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1900)
· Grasses Ceylon (1956)
· Taxon (1973)
· Blumea (1991)

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Full-text: Shitya, Dropseed, Sporobolus africanus, Wire grass, Sporobolus pyramidalis.

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