Plant Details

Accepted name:: Nymphaea tetragona Georgi [Nymphaeaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
kumuda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
lián huā	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
ruì lián	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
shuì lián	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
shuì lián cài	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
utpalam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
zǐ wǔ lián	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
子午蓮	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
瑞蓮	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
睡莲	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
睡蓮	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
睡蓮菜	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
蓮花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
flower, leaf, rhizome		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 22 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Castalia crassifolia Hand.-Mazz. Symb. Sin. 7: 333 (1931).
Castalia pygmaea Salisb. Parad. Lond. 1: t. 68 (1807).
Castalia rudgeana Tratt. Flora 5: 599 (1822).
Castalia tetragona (Georgi) G.Lawson Proc. & Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada 6: 112 (1888 publ. 1889).
Leuconymphaea tetragona (Georgi) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 12 (1891).
Nymphaea alba subsp. tetragona (Georgi) Korsh. Fl. Vostochnoĭ Evropy 1: 133 (1892).
Nymphaea crassifolia (Hand.-Mazz.) Nakai J. Jap. Bot. 14: 751 (1938).
Nymphaea esquirolii H.Lév. & Vaniot Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 3: 350 (1907).
Nymphaea fennica Mela Acta Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 14(3): 1 (1897).
Nymphaea japono-koreana Nakai J. Jap. Bot. 14: 749 (1938), no Latin descr.
Nymphaea pygmaea (Salisb.) W.T.Aiton Hortus Kew. 3: 293 (1811).
Nymphaea pygmaea f. acutiloba Regel Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, 4(4): 17 (1861).
Nymphaea pygmaea var. acutiloba (Regel) Regel Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 34(II): 127 (1862).
Nymphaea pygmaea f. distans Regel Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, 4(4): 17 (1861).
Nymphaea pygmaea f. grandiflora Regel Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, 4(4): 17 (1861).
Nymphaea pygmaea var. grandiflora (Regel) Regel Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 34(II): 127 (1862).
Nymphaea pygmaea var. minima Nakai J. Jap. Bot. 14: 746 (1938).
Nymphaea tetragona var. angusta Casp. ex Nakai Chosen Shokubutsu: 93 (1919).
Nymphaea tetragona var. crassifolia (Hand.-Mazz.) Y.C.Chu Fl. Pl. Herb. Chin. Bor.-Or. 3: 82 (1975).
Nymphaea tetragona var. minima (Nakai) W.Lee Lin. Fl. Koreae: 360 (1996).
Nymphaea tetragona var. wenzelii (Maack ex Regel) Vorosch. in A.K.Skvortsov (ed.), Florist. Issl. Razn. Raĭonakh SSSR: 167 (1985).
Nymphaea wenzelii Maack ex Regel Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, 4(4): 17 (1861).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Nymphaea tetragona Georgi	Checklist of Korean Cult. Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) 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)

Nymphaea tetragona Georgi

Checklist of Korean Cult. Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986)
Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
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)

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