Plant Details

Accepted name:: Samadera indica Gaertn. [Simaroubaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bitterwood	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
gucchakaranjah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kame	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
karin-njota	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karincottai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karinghola	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karinghota	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karingota	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karingotta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karinjotta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karinjottei	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
karinnotta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
le-seik-shin	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
lokanti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
lokhandi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
lokhanti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
neepa bark	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
nibam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
niepa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
niepa bark tree	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
nipa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nipam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
notta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rangoon creeper	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
samadara	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
samdera	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
simaruba de madagascar	Other	Med. Pl. Indian Ocean Ils. (Gurib-Fakim et al., 2004)
theban	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Bark, leaf, fruit		Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
bark, seed, leaves, wood	seed oil, juice	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
bark		Med. Pl. Indian Ocean Ils. (Gurib-Fakim et al., 2004)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 29 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Quassia indica (Gaertn.) Noot. Blumea 11: 517 (1963).
Samadera lucida (Wall.) Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calcutt.: 182 (1845).
Samadera madagascariensis A.Juss. Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 12: 516 (1825).
Locandi glandulifera (C.Presl) Pierre Fl. Forest. Cochinch.: t. 262 (1892).
Locandi indica (Gaertn.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 104 (1891).
Locandi lucida (Wall.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 104 (1891).
Locandi madagascariensis (A.Juss.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 104 (1891).
Locandi mekongensis Pierre Fl. Forest. Cochinch.: t. 263 (1892).
Locandi merguensis Pierre Fl. Forest. Cochinch.: t. 262 (1892).
Locandi pendula (Blanco) Pierre Fl. Forest. Cochinch.: t. 262 (1892).
Manungala pendula Blanco Fl. Filip.: 306 (1837).
Niota commersonii Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 416 (1805).
Niota lamarkiana Blume Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 251 (1825), nom. superfl.
Niota lucida Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: t. 168 (1831).
Niota pendula Sm. in A.Rees, Cycl. 25: [s.p.] (1819), nom. superfl.
Niota pentapetala Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 4: 490 (1798).
Niota tetrapetala Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 4: 490 (1798).
Quassia indica var. lucida (Wall.) Blatt. in Kirtikar & Basu, Ind. Med. Pl. 1: 509 (1935).
Quassia indica var. papuava Lauterb. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 56: 342 (1920).
Samadera brevipetala Scheff. Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indië 32: 410 (1871).
Samadera glandulifera C.Presl Symb. Bot. (Pragae) 2: 1 (1834).
Samadera indica var. brevipetala (Scheff.) Backer Fl. Batavia: 258 (1907).
Samadera indica var. lucida (Wall.) Kurz J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 44: 136 (1876).
Samadera mekongensis (Pierre) Engl. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(4): 210 (1896).
Samadera pentapetala (Poir.) G.Don Gen. Hist. 1: 811 (1831).
Samadera tetrapetala (Poir.) G.Don Gen. Hist. 1: 811 (1831).
Simaba indica (Gaertn.) Baill. Hist. Pl. 4: 440 (1873).
Vitmannia elliptica Vahl Symb. Bot. 3: 51 (1794).
Vitmannia lucida (Wall.) Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 779 (1841).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Quassia indica	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Quassia indica (Gaertn.) Noot.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Quassia indica (Gaertn.) Nooteboom	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Quassia indica (Gaertner) Noot.	Med. & Pois. Pl. 2 (Valkenburg et al., 1999)
Quassia indica Nooteboom	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Quassia indica Nooteboom.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Samadera indica	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Samadera indica Gaertn.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Samadera indica Gaertner	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Samadera lucida (Wall.) Voigt	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Samadera madagascariensis A. Juss.	Med. Pl. Indian Ocean Ils. (Gurib-Fakim et al., 2004)

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