Plant Details

Accepted name:: Biophytum umbraculum Welw. [Oxalidaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
kangani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kanguni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kikè	Other	Pl. Méd. Vendues dans le Marché, Bénin (Adomou et al., 2012)
kiké	Other	Domestic Market in Herb. Med. in Benin (Quiroz et al., 2014)
klotzsch	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
malkangani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
malkangoni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pigavi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
安胎药	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
whole plant	dry whole plant	Domestic Market in Herb. Med. in Benin (Quiroz et al., 2014)
leafy stem		Pl. Méd. Vendues dans le Marché, Bénin (Adomou et al., 2012)

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

Biophytum apodiscias (Turcz.) Edgew. & Hook.f. in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 1: 437 (1874).
Biophytum petersianum Klotzsch in W.C.H.Peters, Naturw. Reise Mossambique 6(Bot., 1): 81 (1861).
Biophytum sessile (Buch.-Ham. ex Baill.) R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 130: 406 (1930), nom. illeg.
Oxalis sessilis Buch.-Ham. ex Baill. Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 598 (1886).
Biophytum rotundifolium Delhaye Bull. Séances Inst. Roy. Colon. Belge 23: 855 (1952).
Oxalis apodiscias Turcz. Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 36(I): 595 (1863).
Oxalis petersianum (Klotzsch) Müll.Berol. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 7: 502 (1869).
Oxalis petersii Edgew. & Hook.f. in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 1: 437 (1874), not validly publ.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Biophytum apodisciac (Turcz.) Edgew. & J. D. Hook.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Biophytum apodiscias	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
Biophytum apodiscias Edgew. & Hook.f.	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Trop. Africa (2015)
Biophytum petersenianum Klotsch	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Biophytum petersianum	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Pl. Méd. Vendues dans le Marché, Bénin (Adomou et al., 2012)
Biophytum petersianum Klotzsch	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Biophytum petersianum Klotzsch.	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Trop. Africa (2015)
Biophytum sessile (Buch. Ham.) K. Kunth	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Biophytum sessile (Buch.-Ham.) K.Kunth	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Biophytum umbraculum Welw.	Domestic Market in Herb. Med. in Benin (Quiroz et al., 2014) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Oxalis sessilis Buch.-Ham. ex Baill.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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