Plant Details

Accepted name:: Gentiana punctata L. [Gentianaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
argençana	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
genciana	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
spotted gentian	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
root	tincture, vegetal drug, dry extract, fluid extract, powdered drug	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Coilantha campanulata G.Don Gen. Hist. 4: 185 (1837).
Coilantha punctata G.Don Gen. Hist. 4: 185 (1837).
Dasystephana punctata (L.) Borkh. Arch. Bot. 1: t. 26 (1796).
Gentiana campanulata Jacq. Fl. Austriac. 5: 43 (1778).
Gentiana immaculata Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 284 (1805).
Gentiana purpurea Vill. Hist. Pl. Dauphiné 2: 523 (1787), nom. illeg.
Gentianusa punctata (L.) Pohl Tent. Fl. Bohem. 1: 249 (1809).
Lexipyretum punctatum Dulac Fl. Hautes-Pyrénées: 451 (1867).
Pneumonanthe campanulata (Jacq.) F.W.Schmidt Arch. Bot. (Leipzig) 1(1): 9 (1796).
Pneumonanthe campestris F.W.Schmidt ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 357 (1841), not validly publ.
Pneumonanthe punctata (L.) F.W.Schmidt Arch. Bot. (Leipzig) 1(1): 9 (1796).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Gentiana punctata	Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998)
Gentiana punctata L.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbal Sector of Serbia (Stevanovic, 2011) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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