Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dysphania anthelmintica (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants [Amaranthaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
chenopodii aetheroleum	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
chenopodio	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
chenopodium anthelminticum	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
chénopode anthelmintique	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
quenopodio	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
wormseed	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
wormseed goosefoot	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
wurmtreibender gänsefuß	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
	essential oil	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 12 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Chenopodium ambrosioides var. anthelminticum (L.) A.Gray Manual, ed. 2: 364 (1856).
Chenopodium anthelminticum L. Sp. Pl.: 220 (1753).
Agathophytum anthelminticum (L.) Peterm. Pflanzenreich: 746 (1845).
Ambrina ambrosioides var. anthelmintica (L.) Moldenke Phytologia 1: 274 (1938).
Ambrina anthelmintica (L.) Spach Hist. Nat. Vég. 5: 298 (1836).
Atriplex anthelmintica (L.) Crantz Inst. Rei Herb. 1: 207 (1766).
Botrys anthelminticus (L.) Nieuwl. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 3: 275 (1914).
Chenopodium ambrosioides subsp. anthelminthicum P.Fourn. Quatre Fl. France: 252 (1935).
Chenopodium anthelminticum var. pubescens Makino J. Jap. Bot. 8: 24 (1932).
Dysphania ambrosioides var. anthelmintica (L.) Stace Edinburgh J. Bot. 76: 179 (2018).
Orthosporum anthelminticum Kostel. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 4: 1433 (1835).
Roubieva anthelmintica Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy.: 387 (1840).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Chenopodium ambrosioides L. var. anthelminticum (L.) A. Gray	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Chenopodium ambrosioides L. var. anthelminticum (L.) Gray	Checklist of Korean Cult. Pl. (Mun-Chan et al., 1986)
Chenopodium ambrosioides L. var. anthelminticum Gray	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Chenopodium anthelminticum	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Chenopodium anthelminticum L.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Dysphania anthelmintica (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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