Plant Details

Accepted name:: Spermacoce ocymoides Burm.f. [Rubiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
planta de arena	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
suika-ska	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
丰花草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 22 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Borreria laevicaulis (Miq.) Ridl. J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 86: 298 (1922).
Borreria ocymoides (Burm.f.) DC. Prodr. 4: 544 (1830).
Borreria stricta (L.f.) K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4(4): 143 (1891).
Bigelovia gracilis Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 1: 404 (1824).
Bigelovia laevicaulis Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. 2: 335 (1857).
Bigelovia ocymoides (Burm.f.) Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. 2: 335 (1857).
Bigelovia parviflora Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 1: 405 (1824).
Bigelovia stricta (L.f.) Blume Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 945 (1826).
Bigelovia tenera (R.Br. ex G.Don) Heynh. Nom. Bot. Hort.: 122 (1840).
Borreria ocymoides var. minorifolia Hochr. Candollea 5: 284 (1934).
Borreria ocymoides var. thekkumalensis Sivar. & K.T.Joseph Int. Quart. J. Pl. Sci. Res. 6: 133 (1979).
Borreria trichantha Miq. Stirp. Surinam. Select.: 178 (1851).
Spermacoce aspera Vahl Eclog. Amer. 1: 10 (1897), nom. illeg.
Spermacoce hirta Sw. Observ. Bot.: 45 (1791), nom. illeg.
Spermacoce laevis Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 1: 401 (1824), nom. illeg.
Spermacoce microphylla Pohl ex DC. Prodr. 4: 546 (1830), pro syn.
Spermacoce ramosa Wall. Numer. List: n.° 831 (1829), nom. nud.
Spermacoce stricta L.f. Suppl. Pl.: 120 (1782).
Spermacoce tenera R.Br. ex G.Don Gen. Hist. 3: 621 (1834).
Spermacoce trichantha (Miq.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 123 (1898).
Tardavel ocymoides (Burm.f.) Hiern Cat. Afr. Pl. 1: 503 (1898).
Tardavel stricta (L.f.) Hiern Cat. Afr. Pl. 1: 503 (1898).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Borreria laevicaulis	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Borreria ocimoides	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Borreria ocymoides	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Borreria ocymoides (Burm.f.) DC.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Borreria oeymoides (Burm.f.) DC.	Med. & Pois. Pl. 2 (Valkenburg et al., 1999)
Borreria stricta (L. f.) G. F. W. Mey.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Spermacoce ocimoides	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Spermacoce ocymoides Burm.f.	Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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