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

Starfish grass in English is the name of a plant defined with Dactyloctenium aegyptium in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Eleusine cruciata Elliott, nom. illeg., non Eleusine cruciata Lam. (among others).

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

· Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1900)
· Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique … Botanique (1791)
· Prodromus Plantarum Indiae Occidentalis (1825)
· Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci. (1959)
· Synopseos Plantarum (1805)
· Chloris Aetnensis (1813)

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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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