Plant Details

Accepted name:: Griffonia simplicifolia (Vahl ex DC.) Baill. [Fabaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
atooto	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
gbogbotri	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
griffonia	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015)
kajya	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
kanya	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
kwakuo-aboto.	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Seeds		Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015)
seed	dried seed	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Bandeiraea simplicifolia (Vahl ex DC.) Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 25: 306 (1865).
Schotia simplicifolia Vahl ex DC. Prodr. 2: 508 (1825).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Bandeiraea simplicifolia	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
Bandeiraea simplicifolia (DC.) Benth.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017)
Bandeiraea simplicifolia (M.Vahl ex DC.) Benth.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
Griffonia simplicifolia	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
Griffonia simplicifolia (M. Vahl Ex Dc.) Baill.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Griffonia simplicifolia (M. Vahl ex DC.) Baill.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Griffonia simplicifolia (Vahl ex DC.) Bail	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Griffonia simplicifolia (Vahl ex DC.) Baill.	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Griffonia simplicifolia Baill.	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
Griﬀonia simplicifolia (DC.) Baill	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017)

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