Plant Details

Accepted name:: Tripterygium wilfordii Hook.f. [Celastraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
kunming shanhaitang pian	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
kunming shanhaitang tablets	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
lei gong teng	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
leigongteng	Other	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
tabellae tripterygii hypoglauci	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
thunder god vine	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
tripterygium	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
掉毛草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
昆明山海棠	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
雷公藤	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Radix		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
root		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
root	tablets	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 10 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Tripterygium hypoglaucum (H.Lév.) Hutch. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1917: 101 (1917).
Aspidopterys hypoglauca H.Lév. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 9: 458 (1911).
Berchemia franchetiana (H.Lév.) H.H.Pham in unknown publication.
Celastrus chungii Merr. Sunyatsenia 3: 253 (1937).
Microrhamnus franchetiana H.Lév. Bull. Acad. Int. Géogr. Bot. 25: 26 (1915).
Tripterygium bullockii Hance J. Bot. 18: 259 (1880).
Tripterygium forrestii Loes. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 8: 4 (1913).
Tripterygium forrestii var. execum (Sprague & Takeda) Chen H.Wang Contr. Inst. Bot. Natl. Acad. Peiping 4: 347 (1936).
Tripterygium wilfordii var. bullockii (Hance) Matsuda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 25: 286 (1910).
Tripterygium wilfordii var. execum Sprague & Takeda Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1912: 222 (1912).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Tripterigium wilfordii Hooker	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Tripterygium hypoglaucum	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
Tripterygium hypoglaucum (Devl.) Hutch.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Tripterygium hypoglaucum (H. Lév.) Hutch.	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2022 (WHO-UMC, 2022)
Tripterygium hypoglaucum (H.Lév.) Hutch.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Tripterygium hypoglaucum (Levl.) Hutch.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Tripterygium wilfordii	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. F.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. f.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Tripterygium wilfordii Hook.f.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Tripterygium wilfordii Hook.f. in Benth. & Hook.f.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)

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