Plant Details

Accepted name:: Melilotus indicus (L.) All. [Fabaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alfalfilla	Other	Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
annual yellow	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
annual yellow sweet clover	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
annual yellow sweet-clover	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
annual yellow sweetclover	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
ban methi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ban-methi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
banmethi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bitter meliot	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
bokhara clover	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
california lucerne	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
common melilot	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
dvärgsötväppling	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
ekleil almalik	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005)
gard	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005)
ghosn alban	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005)
gorhadal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
haisukka	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
handagog	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005)
handagog bostani	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005)
handagug	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994)
handaquq	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
handaquq murr	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
hexham scent n. sw	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
hexham-scent	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
hexham-scent melilot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
ilkil-ul-malik	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
india clover	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
indian sweet clover	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
indian sweet-clover	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
indian sweetclover	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
kaadu loosarne soppu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaadu loosnar soppu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaadu wosarna soppu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
king island melilot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
king island-clover	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
kleinblütiger steinklee	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
ko-shinagawa-hagi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
marvo	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
meena	Other	Ethnomed. Pl. of Soon Valley, Pakistan (Ghani et al., 2014)
meliloto a fioro piccolo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
melilotus	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
melilotus indicus whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
metho	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
morila	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mélilot de l' inde	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
mélilot des indes	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
mélilot d’inde	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
nafal	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
naflah	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005)
neem	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
qurt	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
ran-methi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ring island clover	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ring island melilot	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
scented clover	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
senji	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
small flowered sweet clover	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005)
small melilot	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
small-flowered melilot	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
sour clover	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
sour-clover	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
sow clover	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
steenklaver	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
suendadi-pallu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sweet clover	Other	Ethnomed. Pl. of Soon Valley, Pakistan (Ghani et al., 2014) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
sweet melilot	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
trebol de olor	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
trevo-de-cheiro	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
vana methi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vana-methikaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
vanamethi	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
vanamethika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yin du cao mu xi	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
zerareca	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005)
νυχάκι	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
قرط حندقوق مر	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
نفل	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
脾寒草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
野苜蓿	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Entire plant		Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
Whole plant, seeds		Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005)
whole plant		Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
Whole plant		Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
leaves		Ethnomed. Pl. of Soon Valley, Pakistan (Ghani et al., 2014)
flowering branches, seeds		Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 32 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Medicago parviflora (Desf.) E.H.L.Krause in J.W.Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Abbild., ed. 2. 9: 125 (1901).
Melilotus parviflorus Desf. Fl. Atlant. 2: 192 (1799).
Trifolium indicum L. Sp. Pl.: 765 (1753).
Melilotus berardii Medik. Vorles. Churpfälz. Phys.-Ökon. Ges. 2: 382 (1787).
Melilotus bonplandii Ten. Index Seminum (NAP, Neapolitano) 1833: 14 (1833).
Melilotus boumettii Hornem. Suppl. Hort. Bot. Hafn.: 84 (1819).
Melilotus brachystachyus Willd. ex Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 3: 207 (1826).
Melilotus exaltatus Bianca Atti Accad. Gioenia Sci. Nat. Catania, ser. 2, 13: 211 (1857).
Melilotus indicus var. bonplandii (Ten.) O.E.Schulz Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 715 (1901).
Melilotus indicus var. exaltatus Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 5: 55 (1899).
Melilotus indicus var. laxiflorus Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 5: 55 (1899).
Melilotus indicus var. parvulus Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 5: 56 (1899).
Melilotus indicus var. permixtus (Jord.) P.Fourn. Quatre Fl. France: 549 (1936).
Melilotus indicus subsp. permixtus (Jord.) Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 5: 56 (1899).
Melilotus melilotus-indicus Asch. & Graebn. Fl. Nordostdeut. Flachl.: 435 (1898).
Melilotus minimus Roth Nov. Pl. Sp.: 361 (1821).
Melilotus neapolitanus var. macrocarpus Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 5: 57 (1899).
Melilotus occidentalis Nutt. in J.Torrey & A.Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 321 (1838).
Melilotus parviflorus var. rubrocalyx Herder Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1868: 92 (1869).
Melilotus permixtus Jord. Mém. Acad. Sci. Lyon, Sect. Sci. 1: 55 (1852).
Melilotus reticulatus Pomel Nouv. Mat. Fl. Atl. 2: 322 (1875).
Melilotus robinii Raf. Fl. Ludov.: 102 (1817).
Melilotus rugulosus Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol.: 789 (1809).
Melilotus tommasinii Jord. Mém. Acad. Natl. Sci. Lyon, Cl. Sci., sér. 2, 1: 266 (1851).
Sertula indica (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 205 (1891).
Trifolium melilotus L. Sp. Pl.: 764 (1753).
Trifolium melilotus-parviflorum M.Bieb. Fl. Taur.-Caucas. 3: 506 (1819).
Trifolium parviflorum (Desf.) F.Dietr. Vollst. Lex. Gärtn. 10: 157 (1810), nom. illeg.
Trifolium rugulosum (Willd.) F.Dietr. Vollst. Lex. Gärtn. 10: 166 (1810).
Trigonella berardii (Medik.) Sennikov Checkl. Vasc. Pl. Tian-Shan: 169 (2021).
Trigonella melilotus Link Handbuch 2: 165 (1831).
Trigonella smallii Coulot & Rabaute Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest. Numero Special 40: 650 (2013).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Medicago parviflora Gilib.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Melilotus indica	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Ethnomed. Pl. of Soon Valley, Pakistan (Ghani et al., 2014)
Melilotus indica (L.) All.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002)
Melilotus indica (L.)All.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Melilotus indica (Linn.) All.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Melilotus indica Allioni	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Melilotus indicus (L.) All.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998) Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Melilotus indicus L.	Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
Melilotus parviflora Desf.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Melilotus parvijlora Desr.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Trifolium indicum L.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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