Parent Category: Sanskrit Names of Medicinal Plants
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कासः  - Saccharum spontaneum

 

Name - कासः

Botanical name - Saccharum spontaneum

Description - Perennial rhizomatous herb with erect culms. Leaves erect, linear-acuminate, involute. Inflorescence paniculate, contracted; spikelets lanceolate, silky-hairy, longer than spike.

Chemical Constituents- Plant contains hydrocyanic acid.