Plant Details

Accepted name:: Mitragyna speciosa Korth. [Rubiaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bein-sa	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
bia	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
biak	Other	ASEAN Herbal and Med. Pl. (Mat Ali et al., 2010) Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Malaysian Herbal Monog., Vol. 2. (2009) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
biak-biak	Other	ASEAN Herbal and Med. Pl. (Mat Ali et al., 2010) Malaysian Herbal Monog., Vol. 2. (2009) Mitragyna speciosa Use in N States, Malaysia (Ahmad & Aziz, 2012)
ithang	Other	ASEAN Herbal and Med. Pl. (Mat Ali et al., 2010)
kakuam or thom	Other	ASEAN Herbal and Med. Pl. (Mat Ali et al., 2010)
ketom	Other	ASEAN Herbal and Med. Pl. (Mat Ali et al., 2010) Malaysian Herbal Monog., Vol. 2. (2009)
ketum	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Mitragyna speciosa Use in N States, Malaysia (Ahmad & Aziz, 2012) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kotum	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kra thom	Other	Pl. Used in Phatthalung Province, Thailand (Maneenoon et al., 2015)
krathom	Other	ASEAN Herbal and Med. Pl. (Mat Ali et al., 2010)
kratom	Other	ASEAN Herbal and Med. Pl. (Mat Ali et al., 2010) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Mitragyna speciosa Use in N States, Malaysia (Ahmad & Aziz, 2012) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024)
kratum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kutum	Other	ASEAN Herbal and Med. Pl. (Mat Ali et al., 2010) Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Malaysian Herbal Monog., Vol. 2. (2009) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
mitragynae folium	Pharmaceutical	Malaysian Herbal Monog., Vol. 2. (2009)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaf		WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019)
leaves		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Leaf		Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
leaves		Mitragyna speciosa Use in N States, Malaysia (Ahmad & Aziz, 2012)
leaves		ASEAN Herbal and Med. Pl. (Mat Ali et al., 2010)
leaf		WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024)
leaves		Malaysian Herbal Monog., Vol. 2. (2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 4 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Nauclea korthalsii Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 186 (1841), not validly publ.
Nauclea luzoniensis Blanco Fl. Filip., ed. 2.: 102 (1845).
Nauclea speciosa (Korth.) Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. 2: 140 (1856).
Stephegyne speciosa (Korth.) Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Ned. Bezitt., Bot.: 160 (1842).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Mitragyna speciosa	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Mitragyna speciosa Use in N States, Malaysia (Ahmad & Aziz, 2012)
Mitragyna speciosa (Korth.) Havil.	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. & Pois. Pl. 2 (Valkenburg et al., 1999) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Mitragyna speciosa (Roxb.) Korth.	Pl. Used in Phatthalung Province, Thailand (Maneenoon et al., 2015)
Mitragyna speciosa KORTH.	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Mitragyna speciosa Korth	Malaysian Herbal Monog., Vol. 2. (2009)
Mitragyna speciosa Korth.	ASEAN Herbal and Med. Pl. (Mat Ali et al., 2010) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Mitragyne speciosa	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Mitragyne speciosa Korth.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Mytragyna speciosa Korth	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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