Plant Details

Accepted name:: Viscum coloratum (Kom.) Nakai [Santalaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
coloed mistletoe	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
coloured mistletoe herb	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
herba visci	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
hu ji sheng	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
hujisheng	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
japansk mistel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
visci herba	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
visci herba et loranthi ramulus	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
槲寄生	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaf, stem	dried stem and branch with leaf	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
Stem		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
stem and branch with leaf	dried stem and branch with leaf	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
leaf, stem	dried stem and branch with leaf	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
branch, leaf, stem		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
stem and branch		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 14 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Viscum album subsp. coloratum Kom. Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 22: 107 (1903).
Viscum album var. coloratum (Kom.) Ohwi Fl. Jap.: 449 (1953).
Viscum articulatum Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 3: 133 (1867), nom. illeg.
Viscum album f. lutescens (Makino) Kitag. Neolin. Fl. Manshur.: 226 (1979).
Viscum album var. lutescens Makino Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 25: 17 (1911).
Viscum album f. rubroaurantiacum (Makino) Kitag. Neolin. Fl. Manshur.: 226 (1979).
Viscum album var. rubroaurantiacum Makino Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 18: 67 (1904).
Viscum alni-formosanae Hayata Icon. Pl. Formosan. 6: 39 (1916).
Viscum coloratum var. alni-formosanae (Hayata) Iwata J. Agric. Sci. (Tokyo) 3: 179 (1956).
Viscum coloratum var. lutescens (Makino) Miyabe J. Fac. Agr. Hokkaido Imp. Univ. Sapporo 26(4): 492 (1934).
Viscum coloratum f. lutescens (Makino) Kitag. Lin. Fl. Manshur.: 173 (1939).
Viscum coloratum var. rubroaurantiacum (Makino) Miyabe J. Fac. Agr. Hokkaido Imp. Univ. Sapporo 26(4): 492 (1934).
Viscum coloratum f. rubroaurantiacum (Makino) Kitag. Lin. Fl. Manshur.: 173 (1939).
Viscum moniliforme Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 380 (1834), nom. illeg.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Viscum album L. subsp. coloratum Kom.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Viscum album L. var. coloratum Ohwi	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
Viscum articulatum auct. non Burm. f.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Viscum coloratum	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Viscum coloratum (Kom.) Nakai	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Viscum coloratum (Kom.) Nakai.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Viscum coloratum (Komar.) Nakai	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Viscum coloratum (Komarov) Nakai	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Viscum coloratum (Komarov.) Nakai	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
Viscum coloratum Nakai	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Viscum colouratum (Komar.) Nakai	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)

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