Plant Details

Accepted name:: Lessertia frutescens (L.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning [Fabaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants
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 Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010) Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012)
cancerbush	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cancerwort	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) 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)
kanker bos	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
kankerbos	Other	African Herbal Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kankerbossie	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012)
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 Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010)
sandolienhout	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
sutherlandia	Other	African Herbal Pharmacop. 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	African Herbal Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
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		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 Pharmacop. 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 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) 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.	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	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
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 2019 (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 Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)

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