Plant Details

Accepted name:: Opuntia monacanthos (Willd.) Haw. [Cactaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
chhitaar thohar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chhittar chhun	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chhittat chhun	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gangiachu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagajemudu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
云南仙人掌	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 15 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cactus indicus Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2: 475 (1824).
Cactus monacanthos Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol., Suppl.: 33 (1814).
Cactus opuntia var. parvifolius Risso Hist. Nat. Prod. Eur. Mérid. 2: 172 (1826).
Cactus urumbeba Vell. Fl. Flumin.: 207 (1829).
Opuntia deflexa Lem. Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov.: 68 (1839).
Opuntia gracilior Lem. Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov.: 68 (1839).
Opuntia inermis Moris & De Not. Fl. Caprar.: 58 (1839), nom. illeg.
Opuntia lemaireana Console ex Bois Dict. Hort. 2: 894 (1898).
Opuntia monacanthos var. deflexa Salm-Dyck Cact. Hort. Dyck.: 66 (1850).
Opuntia monacanthos var. gracilior Lem. Cact. Gen. Sp. Nov.: 68 (1839).
Opuntia monacanthos f. jejuensis Jekuk Kim ex Y.S.Yang Korean J. Pl. Resources 35: 814 (2022).
Opuntia monacanthos var. variegata Anon. Gard. Chron., n.s., 2: 49 (1874).
Opuntia roxburghiana Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calcutt.: 62 (1845).
Opuntia urumbeba (Vell.) Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 222 (1841).
Opuntia vulgaris var. lemaireana (Console ex Bois) Backeb. Cactac.: Handb. Kakteenk. 1: 400 (1958).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Opuntia monacantha	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998)
Opuntia monacantha (Willd.) Haw.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Opuntia monacantha (Willd.)Haw.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Opuntia monacantha Haw.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Opuntia monocantha Haw	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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