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

Wel maratu in Sri Lanka is the name of a plant defined with Echinochloa stagnina in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Orthopogon stagninus (Retz.) Spreng. (among others).

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

· Conspectus Florae Africae (1894)
· Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci. (1959)
· Systema Vegetabilium (1817)
· Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia (1961)
· Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1900)
· Mémoires de la Société Botanique de France (1953)

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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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