Umbrella grass: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Umbrella grass in English is the name of a plant defined with Panicum decompositum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Panicum proliferum var. decompositum (R. Br.) Thell.) (Latin decompositus, a, um ‘much divided, more than once divided, divided twice’, compono, posui, positum ‘set together, to bring into union, to unite’ (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Queensland Agricultural Journal (1913)
· Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich (1908)
· Flora Indica; or descriptions … (1820)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1904)
· Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae (1810)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1912)
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