Plant Details

Accepted name:: Goodyera repens (L.) R.Br. [Orchidaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
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Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
lesser rattlesnake plantain	Other	Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 26 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Satyrium repens L. Sp. Pl.: 945 (1753).
Elasmatium repens (L.) Dulac Fl. Hautes-Pyrénées: 121 (1867).
Epipactis chinensis (Schltr.) Hu Rhodora 27: 106 (1925).
Epipactis mairei (Schltr.) Hu Rhodora 27: 106 (1925), nom. illeg.
Epipactis repens (L.) Crantz Stirp. Austr. Fasc., ed. 2, 2: 473 (1769).
Epipactis repens var. ophioides (Fernald) A.A.Eaton Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 21: 65 (1908).
Gonogona repens (L.) Link Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 369 (1822).
Goodyera brevis Schltr. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 12: 345 (1922).
Goodyera chinensis Schltr. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 4: 59 (1919).
Goodyera mairei Schltr. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 65 (1921).
Goodyera ophioides (Fernald) Rydb. Brittonia 1: 86 (1931).
Goodyera pubescens var. repens (L.) Alph.Wood Class-book Bot., ed. 2a: 537 (1847).
Goodyera repens var. japonica Nakai Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus. Tokyo 33: 30 (1953).
Goodyera repens var. ophioides Fernald Rhodora 1: 6 (1899).
Goodyera repens f. ophioides (Fernald) P.M.Br. N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 1: 14 (1995).
Goodyera repens subsp. ophioides (Fernald) Á.Löve & W.Simon S. W. Naturalist 13: 341 (1968).
Neottia repens (L.) Sw. Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 21: 226 (1800).
Orchiodes repens (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 675 (1891).
Orchiodes resupinatum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 675 (1891).
Orchis repens (L.) Eyster ex Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 6: 581 (1805).
Peramium repens (L.) Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 301 (1812).
Peramium repens var. ophioides (Fernald) A.Heller Cat. N. Amer. Pl., ed. 2: 4 (1900).
Peramium secundum (Raf.) House Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 254: 248 (1924).
Satyrium hirsutum Gilib. Exerc. Phyt. 2: 484 (1792), opus utique oppr.
Serapias repens (L.) Vill. Hist. Pl. Dauphiné 2: 53 (1787).
Tussaca secunda Raf. Précis Découv. Somiol.: 43 (1814).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Goodyera repens (L) R.Br.	Medicinal Orchids of Asia (Teoh, 2016)
Goodyera repens (L.) R. Br.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Goodyera repens (L.) R. Br. ex Ait. f.	Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998)
Goodyera repens (L.) R.Br.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Satyrium repens L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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