Plant Details

Accepted name:: Lessertia frutescens (L.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning [Fabaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 3

Lessertia frutescens subsp. frutescens

Lessertia frutescens subsp. microphylla (Burch. ex DC.) J.C.Manning & Boatwr.

Lessertia frutescens subsp. speciosa (E.Phillips & R.A.Dyer) J.C.Manning & Boatwr.

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aantjies	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
baguenaudier á fleurs rouges	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
balloon pea	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
balloon-pea	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
belbos	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
bitterblaar	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
bladder senna	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
bladdersenna	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
blasenstrauch	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
cancer bush	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) Local, Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
cancerbush	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cancerwort	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
cape baloon pea	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
duckplant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
eendjies	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
gansbossie	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
gansiekeur	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
gansies	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
gansies keur	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
hoenderbel	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
hoenderkloek	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
jantjie bêrend	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kalkoenbelletjie	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kalkoenbos	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kalkoentjiebos	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kankerbos	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kankerbossie	Other	Local, Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
keurtjie	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kipkippers	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kippiebos	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
musapelo	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
musaphelo	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
sandolienhout	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
sutherlandia	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
unwele	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
unwele.	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
wildekeur	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaves		Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015)
leaves		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
leaves, stems		Local, Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012)
herb		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
leaf, twig	dried leaves and twigs	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)

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

Colutea frutescens L. Sp. Pl.: 723 (1753).
Sutherlandia frutescens (L.) W.T.Aiton Hortus Kew. 4: 327 (1812).
Colutea grandiflora Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 338 (1796), nom. superfl.
Colutia frutescens (L.) Medik. Philos. Bot. 1: 210 (1789).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Colutea frutescens L.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Lessertia frutescens (L.) Goldblatt & J. C. Manning	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
Lessertia frutescens (L.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Lessertia frutescens (L.) Goldblatt and J. C. Manning.	Local, Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012)
Lessertia frutescens (L.) P.Boldblatt & J.C.Manning	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015)
Sutherlandia frutescens (L.) R. Br.	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Sutherlandia frutescens (L.) R.Br.	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Sutherlandia frutescens (L.) R.Br. ex W.T. Aiton	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Sutherlandia frutescens (L.)R.Br. ex Aiton	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Sutherlandia frutescens R.Br.	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)

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