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Appendix A: Plant Naming

Chapter Number: 
20
Authors: 
Bashar Saad, Omar Said
Pages From: 
512
To: 
522
Book Title: 
Greco-Arab and Islamic Herbal Medicine: Traditional System, Ethics, Safety, Efficacy, and Regulatory Issues
Publisher: 
John Wiley & Sons
Edition: 
1
Date: 
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Abstract: 
The plants kingdom, Plantae, includes trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The scientific study of plants, known as botany, has identified about 350,000 extant species of plants. Over 80,000 plants are in use throughout the world for their therapeutic properties. The method of naming plants as well as other living things using “Latinized” names was introduced to end the confusions of common names, which can refer to different plants depending on the region where they grow. Although plants had Latin ...