Non scientific name details for cannabis sativa - Medicinal Plant Names Services

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Non-scientific name:

cannabis sativa

1 Accepted name(s) for "cannabis sativa":

Accepted name
Cannabis sativa L.

9 Medicinal source(s) include this non-scientific name:

Medicinal sources:	Scientific names as used in medicinal source:	MPNS matched scientific names:	Accepted name:	Trade forms:	Plant parts:
Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)	Cannabis sativa	Cannabis sativa L.	Cannabis sativa L.		seeds
U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)	Cannabis sativa L.	Cannabis sativa L.	Cannabis sativa L.
Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)	Cannabis sativa	Cannabis sativa L.	Cannabis sativa L.
U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)	Cannabis sativa L.	Cannabis sativa L.	Cannabis sativa L.
Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)	Cannabis sativa	Cannabis sativa L. MPNS Best Guess	Cannabis sativa L.		Seed
Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)	Cannabis sativa	Cannabis sativa L. MPNS Best Guess	Cannabis sativa L.		Seed
SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)	Cannabis sativa	Cannabis sativa L. MPNS Best Guess	Cannabis sativa L.
Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)	Cannabis sativa	Cannabis sativa L.	Cannabis sativa L.
Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)	Cannabis sativa	Cannabis sativa L.	Cannabis sativa L.
Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)	cannabis sativa	Cannabis sativa L.	Cannabis sativa L.
Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)	Cannabis sativa	Cannabis sativa L.	Cannabis sativa L.		Flowering tops of female plants, Leaves, Seeds, Whole plant
Med. Pl. in Russia & C Asia (Mamedov et al., 2005)	Cannabis sativa	Cannabis sativa L.	Cannabis sativa L.	Powder	Leaves, fruit

16 Non-scientific name(s) associated with "cannabis sativa":

Non-scientific names:	Class of name:	Medicinal sources:
bhanga	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
cannabis	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
gallow grass	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
ganja	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
hemp	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
indian hemp	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kansa	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
marijuana	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
pot	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
qennab	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
shāhdāneh	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
trilokya-vijaya	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
vijaya	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
شاهدانه	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
قنّب	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
කංසා	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)