Plant Details

Accepted name:: Viola biflora L. [Violaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 3

Viola biflora subsp. biflora

Viola biflora subsp. carlottae Calder & Roy L.Taylor

Viola biflora var. rockiana (W.Becker) Y.S.Chen

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
banafashaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
banafsha	Other	Folk Med. Knwlg. & Consv., Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2006) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Marketing of Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2003) Med. Pl. in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Pakistan (Kayani et al., 2015) Non-Timber Forest Prod. in Swat, Pakistan (Bilal et al., 2020)
banaksha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
banapsa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
banfsha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dundi birali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rta rmig	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
ta mik	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
རྟ་རྨིག །	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
双花堇菜	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaves		Marketing of Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2003)
Whole plant		Med. Pl. in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Pakistan (Kayani et al., 2015)
Flower, whole plant		Non-Timber Forest Prod. in Swat, Pakistan (Bilal et al., 2020)
Flower		Folk Med. Knwlg. & Consv., Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2006)
leaves, flower, root		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Dischidium biflorum (L.) Opiz Seznam: 38 (1852).
Viola biflora var. typica H.Boissieu Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 1: 1073 (1901), not validly publ.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Viola biflora	Marketing of Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2003)
Viola biflora L.	Folk Med. Knwlg. & Consv., Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2006) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med. Pl. in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Pakistan (Kayani et al., 2015) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Viola biflora Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Viola biora	Non-Timber Forest Prod. in Swat, Pakistan (Bilal et al., 2020)

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