Plant Details

Accepted name:: Mandragora officinarum L. [Solanaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alraunwurzel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
alruna	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
autumn mandrake	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
bhagener	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
european mandrake	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
kalánthropos	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
katal jati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katavjate	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kattai-jati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
lakmani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
lakshamana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
lakshmana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
laksmana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
loffāh	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
mandragora	Other	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025)
mandragora officinarum	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
mandragora officinarum whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
mandragore	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
mandragóras	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
mandrake	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
mandrake root	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
mandrágora	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
mediterranean mandrake	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
pome di tchin	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
putrada	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
raktavindu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
satan's apple	Other	Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)
satans apple	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
true mandrake	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
καλάνθρωπος	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
μανδραγόρας	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
لفاح	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Fruit		Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Root, Herb with root		WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
leaf		Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
leaf		Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
root, herb with root		WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024)
herb with root, root		WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025)
root		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
fruit		Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)

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

Atropa mandragora L. Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 933 (1759), nom. superfl.
Mandragora officinalis Mill. ex DC. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck & A.P.de Candolle, Fl. Franç., éd. 3. 3: 610 (1805), nom. superfl.
Atropa acaulis Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 1: 396 (1812), nom. superfl.
Atropa humilis Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 132 (1796), nom. superfl.
Mandragora acaulis Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 236 (1791).
Mandragora mas Garsault Fig. Pl. Méd.: t. 363 (1764), opus utique rej.
Mandragora neglecta G.Don in J.C.Loudon, Hort. Brit.: 71 (1830).
Mandragora officinalis L. Amoen. Acad. 4: 10 (1759), orth. var.
Mandragora praecox Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. 2: t. 198 (1827).
Mandragora vernalis Bertol. Giorn. Arcadico Sci. 21: 191 bis (1824).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Atropa mandragora L.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Mandragora officinalis	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Mandragora officinalis Mill.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Mandragora officinarum	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Mandragora officinarum L.	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013) Med. Pl. in the Medit.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025) Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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