Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Water pennywort in English is the name of a plant defined with Centella asiatica in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Hydrocotyle triflora Vell. (among others).

2) Water pennywort is also identified with Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides It has the synonym see William Darlington, Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall. 428–430. 1849 and H.N. Clokie, Account of the Herbaria of the Department of Botany in the University of Oxford. 36–37. Oxford 1964, J.H. Barnhart, Biographical Notes upon Botanists. 3: 275. 1965, T.W. Bossert, Biographical dictionary of botanists represented in the Hunt Institute portrait collection. 366. 1972. (etc.).

3) Water pennywort is also identified with Hydrocotyle umbellata It has the synonym Annesorhiza caffra Benth. & Hook.f. (etc.).

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

· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (Lamarck) (1789)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1864)
· Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany (1986)
· Nucleus (1997)
· Taxon (2006)
· Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l’État (1975)

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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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