Plant Details

Accepted name:: Murdannia edulis (Stokes) Faden [Commelinaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
kureli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
musli siyah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nigale gava	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
pate phul	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
sismulia	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
siyaah musli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
阔叶水竹叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 19 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Aneilema scapiflorum (Roxb.) Kostel. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 127 (1831).
Aneilema tuberosum Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. Numer. List: n.° 5207 (1831), nom. nud.
Murdannia scapiflora (Roxb.) Royle Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts.: 403 (1840).
Aneilema formosanum N.E.Br. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 36: 152 (1903).
Aneilema loureiroi Hance J. Bot. 6: 250 (1868), nom. superfl.
Aneilema loureiroi var. horsfieldii C.B.Clarke in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 3: 201 (1881).
Aneilema multiscaposum Lauterb. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 50: 62 (1913).
Aneilema platyphyllum Merr. Philipp. J. Sci., C 10: 293 (1915).
Aneilema scapiflorum var. latifolium N.E.Br. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 36: 154 (1903).
Aneilema serotinum D.Don ex C.B.Clarke in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 3: 200 (1881).
Commelina edulis Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 1: 184 (1812).
Commelina scapiflora Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1: 178 (1820).
Commelina spicata Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 402 (1840).
Commelina tuberosa Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 40 (1790), nom. illeg.
Murdannia formosana (N.E.Br.) K.S.Hsu Fl. Taiwan 5: 170 (1978).
Murdannia loureiroi (Hance) R.S.Rao & Kammathy Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 25: 184 (1964), nom. superfl.
Murdannia multiscaposa (Lauterb.) G.Brückn. in H.G.A.Engler, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2. 15a: 173 (1930).
Phaeneilema multiscaposum (Lauterb.) G.Brückn. Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 10: 56 (1927).
Phaeneilema scapiflorum (Roxb.) G.Brückn. Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 10: 56 (1927).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Aneilema scapiflorum Wight	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Aneilema tuberosum Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Murdannia edulis	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Murdannia edulis (Stokes) Faden	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Murdannia scapiflora (Roxb) Royle	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Murdannia scapiflora (Roxb.) Royle	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Murdannia scapiflora (Roxb.) Royle.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Murdannia scapiflora (Roxburgh) Royle	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)

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