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

Water neptunia in English is the name of a plant defined with Neptunia oleracea in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Desmanthus lacustris Torr. & A. Gray (among others).

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

· Nova Acta Physico-medica Academiae Caesareae LeopoldinoCarolinae Naturae Curiosorum Exhibentia Ephemerides sive Observationes Historias et Experimenta (1842)
· Taxon (1985)
· Species Plantarum.
· Plantae Aequinoctiales (1806)
· Symbolae Botanicae (Vahl) (1794)
· Flora Cochinchinensis (1790)

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