Plant Details

Accepted name:: Ranunculus sceleratus L. [Ranunculaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 2

Ranunculus sceleratus var. sceleratus

Ranunculus sceleratus var. multifidus Nutt.

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aglaon	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
agloan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
blister buttercup	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
celery buttercup	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
celery-leaf buttercup	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
celery-leaf crowfoot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
celery-leaved buttercup	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
celery-leaved crowfoot	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
celeryleaf buttercup	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
celeryleaved crowfoot	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
cursed buttercup	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
cursed crowfoot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
jal-dhania	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jal-dhaniyaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
jaldhaniya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaandakatuka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
kaandira	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
kabikaj	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaf-es-saba	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kafessaba	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kandakatuka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kandira	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khajakollathi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kulagi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
marsh crowfoot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
naasaa-samvedana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
nagakor	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
nakapolwa	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
nakuri phul	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
nasasamvedana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
parnayavani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
poison buttercup	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ram-pa	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
ranunculus sceleratus	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
shamphu jhar	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
shim	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shima	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sukaandaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
sukandaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sunphul	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
tharuni	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
tiggarranunkel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
toyavalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
石龙芮	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
石龙芮子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
whole plant	fresh plant	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 4 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Batrachium sceleratum (L.) Th.Fr. ex A.Pihl Bot. Not. 1893: 5 (1893).
Hecatonia scelerata (L.) Fourr. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n.s., 16: 325 (1868).
Ranunculus sceleratus var. typicus L.D.Benson Amer. Midl. Naturalist 40: 203 (1948), not validly publ.
Ranunculus sceleratus subsp. typicus Á.Löve & D.Löve Rit Landbúnaoard. Atvinnud. Háskólans, B 3: 109 (1948), not validly publ.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Ranunculus sceleratus	Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998)
Ranunculus sceleratus L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) 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)
Ranunculus sceleratus L. var. sceleratus Linnaeus	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Ranunculus sceleratus Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Ranunculus scleratus Linnaeus	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)

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