Tubers - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 34326 | |||||
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Plant Name | 199.00 CYPERACEAE Cyperus rotundus | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Tubers | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Tubers | Geography Description | India | ||
| Uses | Tubers Use: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | 323 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: Motha, Mutha etc. Used in certain dye preparations to impart a perfume to the fabric. Rhizomes yield an essential oil, which the natives of Upper India used to perfume their clothes. Used also medicinally as a diaphoretic and astringent., JHH May 26. 1904. | ||||