Plant Details

Accepted name:: Centella asiatica (L.) Urb. [Apiaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
artaniyae-hindi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
babassa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bekaparnamu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bheka-parni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bhekaparni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bheki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bokkudu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bokuduchettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brahma-manduki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brahmakuraku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brahmamanduki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brahmi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brahmi-buti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brahmibuti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cantaki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
carasvati mulikai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cheka-parni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
darduchhada	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
daun kaki kuda	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
divya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gagan-gagan	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
hydrocotyle	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000)
karinga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karivana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khulakhudi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khulakudi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kodagam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kutakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mahaushadhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
manduka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mandukaparni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mandukaparnika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
manduki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muthal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pegaga	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pegaga tekukur	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pegaga ular	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pegagan	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
penggaga	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pintiri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
saraswathi aku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
spadeleaf	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
supriya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
to-ti-tieng	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
tvashti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
undri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vaellarai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vallarai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vallari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
valuluvai arisi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vondelaga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vularei	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yocanavalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
whole plant		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000)
Whole plant		Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
leaves, shoots		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 38 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Hydrocotyle asiatica L. Sp. Pl.: 234 (1753).
Centella asiatica var. boninensis (Nakai ex Tuyama) H.Hara Enum. Spermatophytarum Japon. 3: 304 (1954).
Centella asiatica var. crispata (Maxim.) Y.Yabe Rev. Umb. Jap.: 18 (1902).
Centella asiatica f. crispata (Maxim.) H.Hara Enum. Spermatophytarum Japon. 3: 304 (1954).
Centella asiatica var. cristata Makino Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 18: 65 (1904).
Centella boninensis Nakai ex Tuyama Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 50: 31 (1936).
Centella hirtella Nannf. Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 18: 405 (1924).
Centella ulugurensis (Engl.) Domin Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 41: 157 (1908).
Chondrocarpus asiaticus Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: corr. (1818).
Chondrocarpus triflorus Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: corr. (1818).
Glyceria asiatica Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 177 (1818).
Glyceria triflora Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 177 (1818).
Hydrocotyle abyssinica Gand. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 65: 32 (1918).
Hydrocotyle artensis Montrouz. Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Lyon, Sect. Sci., sér. 2, 10: 212 (1860).
Hydrocotyle asiatica var. crispata Maxim. Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, sér. 3, 31: 44 (1886).
Hydrocotyle asiatica var. monantha F.Muell. Monthly Not. Pap. & Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania 1873: 60 (1874).
Hydrocotyle brasiliensis Scheidw. Allg. Gartenzeitung 10: 286 (1842).
Hydrocotyle brevipedata St.-Lag. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon 7: 128 (1880).
Hydrocotyle brevipes DC. Prodr. 4: 63 (1830).
Hydrocotyle dentata A.Rich. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 4: 182 (1820).
Hydrocotyle ficarifolia Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 2: 57 (1812).
Hydrocotyle ficarioides Lam. Encycl. 3: 153 (1789).
Hydrocotyle hebecarpa DC. Prodr. 4: 63 (1830).
Hydrocotyle inaequipes DC. Prodr. 4: 63 (1830).
Hydrocotyle indivisa Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f. Fl. Nov.-Zel. 1: 83 (1852).
Hydrocotyle leptostachys Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 1: 876 (1824), nom. illeg.
Hydrocotyle lunata Lam. Encycl. 3: 152 (1789).
Hydrocotyle lurida Hance in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 2: 690 (1852).
Hydrocotyle natans Thunb. Hydrocotyle: 3 (1798), nom. illeg.
Hydrocotyle nummularioides A.Rich. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 4: 176 (1820).
Hydrocotyle pallida DC. Prodr. 4: 63 (1830).
Hydrocotyle reniformis Walter Fl. Carol.: 113 (1788).
Hydrocotyle sarmentosa Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 159 (1796).
Hydrocotyle sylvicola Cordem. Fl. Réunion: 434 (1895).
Hydrocotyle thunbergiana Spreng. Neue Entdeck. Pflanzenk. 1: 283 (1820).
Hydrocotyle ulugurensis Engl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 444 (1900).
Hydrocotyle wightiana Wall. Numer. List: n.° 7220 (1832), not validly publ.
Trisanthus cochinchinensis Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 176 (1790).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Hydrocotyle asiatica	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Hydrocotyle asiatica L.	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Hydrocotyle asiatica Linn.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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