Plant Details

Accepted name:: Halerpestes cymbalaria (Pursh) Greene [Ranunculaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alkali buttercup	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
botón de oro	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
gsor ldem pa	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
oreja de gato	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
pura-pura	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
ranúnculo dentado	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
rocky mountain buttercup	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
sor dem pa	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
གསོར་ལྡེམ་པ།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
圆叶碱毛茛	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 29 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Ranunculus cymbalaria Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 392 (1813).
Ranunculus cymbalaria var. saximontanus Fernald Rhodora 16: 162 (1914).
Cyrtorhyncha cymbalaria (Pursh) Britton Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 5: 161 (1894).
Cyrtorhyncha cymbalaria subsp. alpina (Hook.) Á.Löve & D.Löve Bot. Not. 128: 512 (1975 publ. 1976).
Halerpestes cymbalaria f. hebecaulis (Fernald) G.Wilh. & Rericha Michigan Bot. 55(3-4): 95 (2016).
Halerpestes cymbalaria var. saximontanus (Fernald) Moldenke Phytologia 2: 134 (1946).
Halerpestes tridentata Greene Pittonia 4: 208 (1900).
Oxygraphis cymbalaria (Pursh) Prantl Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 9: 263 (1887).
Oxygraphis tridentata (Kunth ex DC.) Prantl Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 9: 262 (1887).
Ranunculus cymbalaria var. alpinus Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 11 (1829).
Ranunculus cymbalaria var. americanus DC. Prodr. 1: 33 (1824).
Ranunculus cymbalaria f. hebecaulis Fernald Rhodora 16: 162 (1914).
Ranunculus cymbalaria var. majus Hook.f. & Thomson Fl. Ind. 1: 30 (1855).
Ranunculus cymbalaria f. microphyllus Hauman Anales Soc. Ci. Argent. 86: 259 (1918).
Ranunculus cymbalaria var. minimus R.Br. in J.Franklin, Narr. Journey Polar Sea: 741 (1823).
Ranunculus cymbalaria subsp. saximontanus (Fernald) Thorne Aliso 9: 193 (1978).
Ranunculus cymbalaria var. typicus L.D.Benson Amer. Midl. Naturalist 40: 215 (1948), not validly publ.
Ranunculus halophilus Schltdl. Animadv. Bot. Ranunc. Cand. 1: 23 (1819).
Ranunculus hemignostus Steud. Flora 39: 404 (1856).
Ranunculus maritimus Phil. Anales Univ. Chile 41: 663 (1872).
Ranunculus microcarpus C.Presl Reliq. Haenk. 2: 70 (1835).
Ranunculus minutus Gay Fl. Chil. 1: 38 (1845).
Ranunculus minutus var. microphylla Phil. Anales Univ. Chile 85: 67 (1894).
Ranunculus nanus Fisch. ex DC. Prodr. 1: 33 (1824), not validly publ.
Ranunculus pozoifolius Gay Fl. Chil. 1: 34 (1845).
Ranunculus saxifragifolius Stephan ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 435 (1841), not validly publ.
Ranunculus tridentatus Kunth ex DC. Syst. Nat. 1: 252 (1817).
Ranunculus tridentatus var. major DC. Syst. Nat. 1: 253 (1817).
Ranunculus tridentatus var. minor DC. Syst. Nat. 1: 253 (1817).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Halerpestes cymbalaria (Pursh) Green	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Halerpestes cymbalaria (Pursh) Greene	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Ranunculus cymbahiria var. saximontanus Fern.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Ranunculus cymbalaria Pursh	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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