Plant Details

Accepted name:: Scaphium affine (Mast.) Pierre [Malvaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
big fat	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
boat sterculia	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
boat-fruited sterculia seed	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
kembang semangkok	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
mak chong ban	Other	Med. Pl. of the Lao P.Rep. (Sydara et al., 2014)
pang da ha	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
pang da hai	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
pangdahai	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
scaphigerae fructus	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
selayar	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
semen sterculiae lychnophorae	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
sterculae lychnophorae	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sterculia	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sterculiae lychnophorae semen	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
sterculiae scaphigerae	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
胖大海	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
seed	dried ripe seed	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
Seed		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
mature seed	dried mature seed	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
seeds		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
fruit		Med. Pl. of the Lao P.Rep. (Sydara et al., 2014)
seed	dried ripe seed	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 8 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Firmiana affinis (Mast.) A.Terracc. Boll. Reale Orto Bot. Palermo 1: 56 (1897).
Sterculia affinis Mast. in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 1: 361 (1874).
Sterculia lychnophora Hance J. Bot. 14: 243 (1876).
Clompanus affinis (Mast.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 78 (1891).
Firmiana lychnophora (Hance) K.Schum. Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 58: 21 (1897).
Scaphium beccarianum Pierre Fl. Forest. Cochinch.: t. 195c (1889).
Scaphium lychnophorum (Hance) Pierre Fl. Forest. Cochinch.: t. 193 (1889).
Sterculia beccariana Pierre Fl. Forest. Cochinch.: t. 201 (1889), nom. altern.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Firmiana affinis Terracini	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Scaphium affine (Mast.) Pierre	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Scaphium affine Pierre.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Scaphium affine Ridley	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Scaphium affinis	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Scaphium affinis Pierre.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Sterculia affinis Masters	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Sterculia affinis Roxb.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Sterculia lychnophora	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Sterculia lychnophora Hance	Med. Pl. of the Lao P.Rep. (Sydara et al., 2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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