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

Whip grass in English is the name of a plant defined with Hemarthria compressa in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Rottboellia glabra Roxb. (among others).

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

· Monographiae Phanerogamarum (1889)
· Flore de l’Afrique du Nord (1952)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Manual of the Korean Grasses (1966)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1983)
· Grasses of Ceylon (1956)

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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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