Plant Details

Accepted name:: Nymphoides peltata (S.G.Gmel.) Kuntze [Menyanthaceae]
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Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
chin so t'ien	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
fu k'uei	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
h'sing ts'ai	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
hsing ts'ai	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
hui t'iao	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
hui t'iao ts'ai	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
shui k'uei	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
water fringe	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
water-fringe	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yellow kamal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
莕菜	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 15 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Limnanthemum nymphoides (L.) Hoffmanns. & Link Fl. Portug. 1: 344 (1820).
Limnanthemum peltatum S.G.Gmel. Novi Comment. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. 14(1): 527 (1770).
Menyanthes nymphoides L. Sp. Pl.: 145 (1753).
Limnanthes nymphoides (L.) Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 1: 300 (1812).
Limnanthes peltata Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 340 (1821 publ. 1822).
Menyanthes natans Lam. Fl. Franç. 2: 203 (1779).
Nymphoides europaea Fisch. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 1: 557 (1821), not validly publ.
Nymphoides flava Hill ex Druce Rep. Bot. Exch. Club Soc. Brit. Isles 3: 437 (1913 publ. 1914).
Nymphoides nymphoides (L.) Britton in N.L.Britton & A.Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S., ed. 2, 3: 19 (1913), not validly publ.
Nymphoides orbiculata Gilib. Fl. Lit. Inch. 1: 33 (1782), opus utique oppr.
Schweyckerta nymphoides (L.) C.C.Gmel. Fl. Bad. 1: 447 (1805).
Villarsia nymphoidea St.-Lag. in A.Cariot, Étude Fl., éd. 8, 2: 581 (1889), orth. var.
Villarsia nymphoides (L.) Vent. Choix Pl.: t. 9 (1803).
Villarsia peltata (S.G.Gmel.) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 4: 178 (1819).
Waldschmidia nymphoides (L.) F.H.Wigg. Prim. Fl. Holsat.: 20 (1780).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Limnanthemum nymphaeoides	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Limnanthemum nymphaeoides Link	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Limnanthemum nymphoides	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Limnanthemum peltatum	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Limnanthemum peltatum Gmel.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
MenjXlnthes nymphoides L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Nymphaeoides peltatum Kuntze	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Nymphoides peltata (Gmel.) Kuntze	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Nymphoides peltata (S.G. Gmel.) Kuntze	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Nymphoides peltata (S.G.Gmel.) Kuntze	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Nymphoides peltatd	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Nymphoides peltatum (Gmel.) Kuntze	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Nymphoides peltatum (Gmel.) O.Kuntze	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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