Plant Details

Accepted name:: Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertn. [Solanaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
amampondo	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
apple of peru	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
apple-of-peru	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
bandoola gida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
belladona	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
dhodana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
endu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
farolito	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
iguzu lezenga	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
iguzu lezinga	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
impungempu	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
iqwangu qwangu	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
isamgoli	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
manzana de peru	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
margarita	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
nicandra	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
quintilho	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
ran-popti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rashbari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
saramacho	Other	Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
saramama	Other	Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
shoo fly	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shoo-fly plant	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
tambukya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
toloache	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
tomate de burro	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ugqwangugqangu	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
umpungempu	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
umsobo	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
假酸浆	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
大千生	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Seed		Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
leaf, aerial part		Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
entire plant		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
entire plant		Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007)
entire plant, leaf	dried entire plant	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 23 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Atropa physalodes L. Sp. Pl.: 181 (1753).
Physalodes physalodes (L.) Britton Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 5: 287 (1894), not validly publ.
Atropa daturifolia Thore Essai Chloris: 74 (1803).
Atropa physaloides L. Syst. Nat., ed. 12. 2: 171 (1767), orth. var.
Boberella nicandra E.H.L.Krause in J.W.Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Abbild., ed. 2. 10: 61 (1903), nom. superfl.
Calydermos erosus Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruv. 2: 43 (1799).
Nicandra brevicorollata Bitter Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 14: 173 (1903).
Nicandra macrocalyx Bitter Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 14: 169 (1903).
Nicandra minor Fisch., C.A.Mey. & Avé-Lall. Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 9: 81 (1843).
Nicandra nana Bitter Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 14: 171 (1903).
Nicandra nebulosa Bitter Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 14: 170 (1903).
Nicandra parvimaculata Bitter Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 14: 168 (1903).
Nicandra physalodes var. crispa Baguet Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 15: 129 (1876).
Nicandra physalodes var. immaculata Wender. Index Seminum (MB, Marburgensis) 1825: [7] (1825).
Nicandra physalodes var. violacea (André ex H.Lemoine) P.D.Sell Fl. Great Britain Ireland 3: 521 (2009).
Nicandra undulata Bitter Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 14: 176 (1903).
Nicandra violacea André ex H.Lemoine Rev. Hort. (Paris) 78: 208 (1906).
Pentagonia physalodes (L.) Hiern Cat. Afr. Pl. 1: 752 (1898).
Physalis daturifolia Lam. Encycl. 2: 102 (1786).
Physalis peruviana Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 16 (1768), nom. illeg.
Physalis spectabilis Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 133 (1796).
Physalodes peruvianum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 452 (1891).
Physaloides physalodes (L.) Britton ex Small & Vail Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 4: 142 (1893).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Atropa physalodes L.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Nicandra Physaloides (L.) Gaertn.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Nicandra physaioides (L.) Gaertn.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Nicandra physalodes	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertn.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertner	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Nicandra physalodes (L.)Gaertn.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Nicandra physalodes (Linnaeus) Gaertner	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
Nicandra physaloides (L.) Gaertn.	Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Nicandra physaloides Gaertner	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Physalodes physalodes (L.)Britton	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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