Plant Details

Accepted name:: Empleurum unicapsulare (L.f.) Skeels [Rutaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
buchu	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
empleurum unicapsularis whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
false buchu	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 7 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Empleurum serrulatum Aiton Hortus Kew. 3: 340 (1789), nom. illeg.
Diosma ensata Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 43 (1794).
Diosma unicapsularis L.f. Suppl. Pl.: 155 (1782).
Empleurum aitonii J.F.Gmel. Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis].: 268 (1791).
Empleurum ensatum (Thunb.) Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral.: 117 (1835).
Empleurum serrulatum var. ensatum (Thunb.) Berg Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 11: t. 12, f. X (1853).
Empleurum serrulatum var. intermedium Berg Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 11: t. 12, f. W (1853).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Empleurum serrulatum	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Empleurum serrulatum Soland.	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Empleurum unicapsulare (L. f.) Skeels	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Empleurum unicapsulare (L.f.) Skeels	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002)
Empleurum unicapsularis (L.F.) Skeels	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
Empleurum unicapsularis (L.f.) Skeels	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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