Plant Details

Accepted name:: Rhynchospora colorata (L.) H.Pfeiff. [Cyperaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
creeping root sedge	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mottenga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
musta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mustu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nirbishi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nirvisha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pimottenga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shwetgothubi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sudu mottu tana	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
swetgothubi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
සුදු මොට්ටු තණ	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 16 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cyperus kyllingia Endl. Cat. Horti Vindob. 1: 94 (1842).
Kyllinga monocephala Rottb. Descr. Icon. Rar. Pl.: 13 (1773), nom. superfl.
Schoenus coloratus L. Sp. Pl.: 43 (1753).
Dichroma ciliatum Ham. Prodr. Pl. Ind. Occid.: 15 (1825), nom. superfl.
Dichromena ciliata Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 58 (1805), nom. superfl.
Dichromena colorata (L.) C.L.Hitchc. Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 4: 141 (1893).
Dichromena drummondiana Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 2: 135 (1855).
Dichromena glabra Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 57 (1805).
Dichromena leucocephala Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 37 (1803).
Dichromena persooniana Nees in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 2(1): 112 (1842), nom. superfl.
Kyllinga colorata (L.) Druce Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 1916: 630 (1917).
Rhynchospora leucocephala (Michx.) Boeckeler Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. Kjøbenhavn 1869: 144 (1869).
Rhynchospora persooniana Griseb. Pl. Wright. 2: 536 (1862), nom. superfl.
Rhynchospora stellata (Lam.) Griseb. Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 7: 271 (1857).
Rhynchospora stellata f. intercedens Kük. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 74: 300 (1951).
Schoenus stellatus Lam. Encycl. 1: 741 (1785).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cyperus kyllingia	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Cyperus kyllingia Endl.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. & Pois. Pl. 1 (Padua et al., 1999)
Kyllinga monocephala	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Kyllinga monocephala Rottb.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Rhynchospora colorata (L.) H. Pfeiff.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Rhynchospora colorata (L.) H.Pfeiff.	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Schoenus coloratus Lour.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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