Plant Details

Accepted name:: Podophyllum hexandrum Royle [Berberidaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
'ol mo se	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
a ga mie le	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Tibetans in Shangri-La, Yunnan (Liu et al., 2009)
bakra-chimyaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bakrachimyaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ban bhanta	Other	Plants and People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
ban kakhri	Other	Med. Pl. in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Pakistan (Kayani et al., 2015)
ban kakri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ban kakru	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bankakari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bankakhdi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bankakhri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bankakri	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bankakru	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bankarkatee	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bankarr	Other	High Value Med. Pl. to Pakistani Communities (Sher et al., 2014)
bhavanbakra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
charpu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
common sinopodophyllum fruit	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
fructus podophylli	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
gangora	Other	Med. Pl. in Mountainous Chail Valley, Pakistan (Ahmad et al., 2014)
ghee	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gheechharpu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
himalaya-maiapfel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
himalayan may apple	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
himalayan mayapple	Other	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Species in Primer (AHPA, 2013) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
indiskt fotblad	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
kakora	Other	Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan. (Hamayun et al., 2003)
kakorra	Other	Med. Pl. in Mountainous Chail Valley, Pakistan (Ahmad et al., 2014)
laghu patra	Other	Plants and People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
laghupattra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
may apple	Other	Plants and People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
nibishi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nirbash	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nn	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
paadbal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
padwal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
padwel	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
papra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
papri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
patvel	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pilijati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
podofill gimalajskij	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
podofill indijskij	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
podophyllin	Other	British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
podophyllum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
podophyllum resin	Other	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
pomme de mai	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
sinopodophyll fructus	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
sinopodophylli fructus	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
tao er qi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
vakra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
van kakdo	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vanatrapusi	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vanavrntaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vankakdi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vankakhharu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
xiao ye lian	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
xiaoyelian	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
öl mo sé	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
འོལ་མོ་སེ།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
rhizome, root	resin	British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
Root		High Value Med. Pl. to Pakistani Communities (Sher et al., 2014)
Rhizome		Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan. (Hamayun et al., 2003)
Roots		Med. Pl. in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Pakistan (Kayani et al., 2015)
Roots		Med. Pl. in Mountainous Chail Valley, Pakistan (Ahmad et al., 2014)
root & rhizome, fruit		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
rhizome		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
rhizome, root	resin	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008)
Fruit, Root		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)

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

Podophyllum emodi Wall. ex Honigberger Thirty-five years in the East 2: 235, 329 (1852).
Podophyllum emodi var. chinense Sprague Bot. Mag. 146: t. 8850 (1920).
Podophyllum emodi var. jaeschkei R.Chatterjee & Mukerjee Rec. Bot. Surv. India 16(2): 47 (1953).
Podophyllum sikkimense R.Chatterjee & Mukerjee Rec. Bot. Surv. India 16(2): 48 (1953).
Sinopodophyllum emodi (Wall. ex Honigberger) T.S.Ying Acta Phytotax. Sin. 17(1): 16 (1979).
Sinopodophyllum hexandrum (Royle) T.S.Ying Vasc. Pl. Hengduan Mount. 1: 558 (1993).
Dysosma emodi (Wall. ex Honigberger) M.Hiroe Pl. Basho's & Buson's Hokku Lit. 8: 328 (1973).
Podophyllum emodi var. axillare R.Chatterjee & Mukerjee Rec. Bot. Surv. India 16(2): 46 (1953).
Podophyllum emodi var. bhootanense R.Chatterjee & Mukerjee Rec. Bot. Surv. India 16(2): 46 (1953).
Podophyllum emodi var. hexandrum (Royle) R.Chatterjee & Mukerjee Rec. Bot. Surv. India 16(2): 45 (1953).
Podophyllum emodi var. royleana Wall. ex Sprague Bot. Mag. 146: t. 8850 (1920).
Podophyllum hexandrum var. axillare (R.Chatterjee & Mukerjee) Browicz Fl. Iranica 101: 2 (1973).
Podophyllum hexandrum var. bhootanense (R.Chatterjee & Mukerjee) Browicz Fl. Iranica 101: 2 (1973).
Podophyllum hexandrum var. chinense (Sprague) Stearn ex Cubey Hanburyana 3: 81 (2008).
Podophyllum hexandrum var. emodi (Wall. ex Honigberger) Seliv.-Gor. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 54: 1605 (1969).
Podophyllum hexandrum var. jaeschkei (R.Chatterjee & Mukerjee) Browicz Fl. Iranica 101: 2 (1973).
Podophyllum hexandrum var. sikkimense (R.Chatterjee & Mukerjee) R.C.Srivast. Fl. Sikkim, Ran.-Morin.: 62 (1998).
Podophyllum himalayense Le Maout & Decne. Traité Général Bot.: 377 (1868), nom. nud.
Podophyllum leichtlinii Langlet Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 22: 176 (1928), nom. nud.
Sinopodophyllum hexandrum var. chinense (Sprague) Stearn ex J.M.H.Shaw & Cubey Hanburyana 4: 37 (2009).
Sinopodophyllum hexandrum var. emodi (Wall. ex Honigberger) J.M.H.Shaw Hanburyana 4: 36 (2009).
Sinopodophyllum hexandrum subsp. ramgopalii D.Maity, J.Ghosh & Midday Nordic J. Bot. 37(3)-e02181: 2 (2019).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Podophyllum emodi	Substances in Medicines, Australia (TGA, 2007)
Podophyllum emodi Wall ex Hook. fil. & Thoms. var. jaeschkei Chatterjee & Mukherjee	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Podophyllum emodi Wall.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Podophyllum emodi Wall. ex Honig.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017)
Podophyllum emodi Wall. ex Royle	Med. Pl. in Mountainous Chail Valley, Pakistan (Ahmad et al., 2014) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Podophyllum emodi Wallich	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Podophyllum emodi Wallich var. chinensis Sprague	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Podophyllum emodii Wall.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Podophyllum emodii Wall. var. chinense Spargue	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Podophyllum hexandrum	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Species in Primer (AHPA, 2013) Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan. (Hamayun et al., 2003) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Podophyllum hexandrum Royle	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Pakistan (Kayani et al., 2015) Plants and People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021)
Podophyllum hexandrum Royle Ying	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
Podophyllum sikkimensis R.Chatterjee & S.M. Mukerjee	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Sinopodophyllum emodii (Wall.) Ying	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Sinopodophyllum hexandrum (Royle) T.S. Ying	Med. Pl. Used by Tibetans in Shangri-La, Yunnan (Liu et al., 2009) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Sinopodophyllum hexandrum (Royle) T.S.Ying	High Value Med. Pl. to Pakistani Communities (Sher et al., 2014) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
Sinopodophyllum hexandrum (Royle) Ying	Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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