Plant Details

Accepted name:: Strophanthus gratus (Wall. & Hook.) Baill. [Apocynaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bego-ese	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
climbing oleander	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
climbing-oleander	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cream fruit	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
eguro-eguro	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
ejoku ja mfa	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
estrofanto	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
gohodo	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
gondo isa	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
isa-gidi	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
isa-ogbubu	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
isagere	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
kalanmeni	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
konen	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
m-moropo	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
matwa	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
o-maatwa	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
oroko	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
ota	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
oubain	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
poison arrow vine	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
poison arrowvine	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
rose allamanda	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
sagere	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
salo	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
siniabie	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
smooth strophanthus	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
spider tresses	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
spider-tresses	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
strofanto	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
strophanthi grati semen	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
strophanthus	Other	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
strophanthus glabre du gabon	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
wabayo.	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
seeds, root, stem leaf		Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015)
seeds		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
seed		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
seed	tincture, vegetal drug, powdered drug	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
seed		African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 9 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Roupellia grata Wall. & Hook. Bot. Mag. 75: t. 4466 (1849).
Strophanthus gratus Franch. J. Bot. (Morot) 7: 321 (1893), nom. illeg.
Nerium guineense Brongn. ex Perrot & Vogt Trav. Lab. Matière Méd. École Supér. Pharm. Paris 9: 61 (1912 publ. 1913).
Roupalia grata (Wall. & Hook.) T.Moore & Ayres Gard. Mag. Bot. 2: 33 (1850).
Strophanthus chopraie M.R.Almeida Fl. Maharashtra 3A: 216 (2001).
Strophanthus glaber Cornu ex Holmes Pharm. J. 23: 928 (1893).
Strophanthus ouaboio Holmes Pharm. J. Trans., ser. 3, 21: 234 (1890), not validly publ.
Strophanthus perrotii A.Chev. Explor. Bot. Afrique Occ. Franç. 1: 421 (1920), nom. nud.
Strophanthus stanleyanus Hook. Bot. Mag. 75: t. 4466 (1849).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Roupellia grata	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Roupellia grata Wall.& Hook.ex Bth.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Strophanthus gratus	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Strophanthus gratus (Wall. & Hook.) Baill.	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Strophanthus gratus (Wall. et Hook. ex Benth.) Baill.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998)
Strophanthus gratus (Wallich & Hook. Ex. Benth.) Baillon	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Strophanthus gratus (Wallich & Hook.) Baill.	Med. & Pois. Pl. 2 (Valkenburg et al., 1999)
Strophanthus gratus (Wallich & Hook.) Baillon	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Strophanthus gratus Baillon	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Strophanthus gratus Franch.	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
Strophantus gratus (Wall. & Hook.) Franchet	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
Strophantus gratus H. Bn.	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)

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