Haemodorum


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Noun1.Haemodorum - type genus of family Haemodoraceae
genus Haemodorum
liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
bloodwort family, family Haemodoraceae, Haemodoraceae - some genera placed in family Liliaceae
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* * * * Gratiola pedunculata * * * Haemodorum planifolium * * * Hedycarya angustifolia * * Heteropogon contortus * * * * Imperata cylindrica * * * Indigofera australis * * * * Jagera pseudorhus * var.
Dry rainforests: a productive habitat for Australian hunter-gatherers
Grey (1841, cited by Laufer 1930) made one of the earliest observations on clay use by Indigenous Australians and suggested that they used it to remove the bitter taste from the roots of Haemodorum coccineum Hook, a plant characterised by phototoxic phenalenone (Johns 1990:86).
Geophagy: an assessment of implications for the development of Australian Indigenous plant processing technologies

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