Plant Details

Accepted name:: Hyphaene coriacea Gaertn. [Arecaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
anala	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
bar	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
doum palm	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ilala	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
lala palm	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
lalapalm	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
makoma	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
makomia	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mede	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
medi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mkoma	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mkoma lume	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mlala	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mokala	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
oh	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
qoone	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 24 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Hyphaene natalensis Kuntze Linnaea 20: 15 (1847).
Chamaeriphes coriacea (Gaertn.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 728 (1891).
Chamaeriphes shatan (Bojer ex Dammer) Kuntze Deutsche Bot. Monatsschr. 21: 173 (1903).
Chamaeriphes turbinata (H.Wendl.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 728 (1891).
Corypha africana Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 213 (1790).
Hyphaene baronii Becc. Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 87: 7 (1906).
Hyphaene beccariana Furtado Garcia de Orta 15: 444 (1967).
Hyphaene coriacea var. minor Drude Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 21: 126 (1895).
Hyphaene hildebrandtii Becc. Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 87: 7 (1906).
Hyphaene oblonga Becc. Agric. Colon. 2: 168 (1908).
Hyphaene parvula Becc. Agric. Colon. 2: 172 (1908).
Hyphaene pileata Becc. Palme Borass.: 42 (1924).
Hyphaene pleuropoda Becc. Agric. Colon. 2: 170 (1908).
Hyphaene pyrifera Becc. Agric. Colon. 2: 167 (1908).
Hyphaene pyrifera var. arenicola Becc. Palme Borass.: 37 (1924).
Hyphaene pyrifera var. gosciaensis (Becc.) Becc. Palme Borass.: 38 (1924).
Hyphaene pyrifera var. margaritensis Becc. Palme Borass.: 37 (1924).
Hyphaene shatan Bojer ex Dammer Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 3: 34 (1900).
Hyphaene spaerulifera Becc. Agric. Colon. 2: 169 (1908).
Hyphaene spaerulifera var. gosciaensis Becc. Agric. Colon. 2: 170 (1908).
Hyphaene tetragonoides Furtado Garcia de Orta 15: 459 (1967).
Hyphaene turbinata H.Wendl. Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 39: 92 (1881).
Hyphaene turbinata var. ansata Becc. Palme Borass.: 39 (1924).
Hyphaene wendlandii Dammer Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 354 (1900).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Hyphaene coriacea	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Hyphaene coriacea Gaertn.	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Hyphaene natalensis Kuntze	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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