Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dioscorea communis (L.) Caddick & Wilkin [Dioscoreaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
barvāni	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
black bindweed	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
black bryony	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
black-bindweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
black-bryony	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
djävulsdruva	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
echte schmerwurz	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
herbe aux femmes battues	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lady's-seal	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
murraim berries	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
murraim berry	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
norça	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tamier	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
tamus communis	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
برواني	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
‫جرمع‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
rhizome		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
Whole plant		Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 12 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Tamus communis L. Sp. Pl.: 1028 (1753).
Smilax rubra Willd. Enum. Pl.: 1015 (1809).
Tamus baccifera St.-Lag. in A.Cariot, Étude Fl., éd. 8, 2: 765 (1889).
Tamus cirrhosa Hausskn. ex Bornm. Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 58 E: 271 (1938).
Tamus communis var. smilacifolia (Jullien ex Boreau) Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 13: 18 (1912).
Tamus communis var. subtriloba Guss. Fl. Sicul. Syn. 2: 880 (1845).
Tamus communis f. subtriloba (Guss.) O.Bolòs & Vigo Fl. Man. Paísos Catalans 4: 171 (2001).
Tamus communis var. triloba Simonk. Enum. Fl. Transsilv.: 520 (1887).
Tamus cordifolia Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 4: 544 (1812).
Tamus norsa Lowe Trans. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 6: 543 (1838).
Tamus racemosa Gouan Fl. Monsp.: 426 (1764).
Tamus smilacifolia Jullien ex Boreau Fl. Centre France, éd. 3, 2: 638 (1857).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Dioscorea communis (L.) Caddick & Wilkin	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Tamus communis	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) Med. Pl. in Russia & C Asia (Mamedov et al., 2005) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Tamus communis L.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)

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