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Indica (or indicum) means "of India", or "Indian", in Latin and is applied
to things connected with India or South Asia:
· The specific epithets indica and indicum are used in binomial
nomenclature to indicate species (or subspecies) of plants, animals etc
thought to originate in, or associated with, India.
· Examples of such species are Mangifera indica (mango), Juniperus indica
(black juniper), Azadirachta indica (neem), and Lagerstroemia indica (crape
myrtle).
· Indica is a long-grain variety of rice (Oryza sativa subsp. indica), as
opposed to the short-grain Japonica (O. sativa subsp. japonica).
· Another example of a botanic subspecies is Cannabis sativa subsp.
indica (a type of marijuana, considered to be a separate species, Cannabis
indica, by some
