Plant Details

Accepted name:: Moringa peregrina (Forssk.) Fiori [Moringaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
arbre à noix de ben	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
behenträd	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ben blanc	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ben tree	Other	Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
bentree	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
habb elyasar	Other	Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
habb-ol-bān	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
moringa aptère	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
shu'	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994)
wild drumsticktree	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
wispy-needle yasartree	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
حبّ البان	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Seed		Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
Seed		Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Seeds		Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 9 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Moringa aptera Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 315 (1791).
Moringa arabica (Lam.) Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 460 (1805).
Moringa myrepsica Thell. Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 8: 784 (1908).
Gymnocladus arabica Lam. Encycl. 1: 733 (1785).
Hyperanthera aptera (Gaertn.) Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 786 (1840).
Hyperanthera arborea J.F.Gmel. Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis].: 408 (1791).
Hyperanthera monodynama Vilm. Summa Pl. 2: 248 (1789).
Hyperanthera peregrina Forssk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: cvii (1775).
Hyperanthera semidecandra Vahl Symb. Bot. 1: 30 (1790).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Moringa Arabica	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Moringa aptera Gaertner	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Moringa arabica (Lam.)Pers.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Moringa myrepsica Thell.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Moringa peregrina	Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
Moringa peregrina (Forssk.) Fiori	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Med. Pl. in the Med.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Moringa peregrina (Forsskal) Fiori	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994)
Moringa peregrina (Forsskal)Fiori	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Moringa peregrine Forssk.	Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)

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