Plant Details

Accepted name:: Heliotropium zeylanicum (Burm.f.) Lam. [Boraginaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alamanda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
asana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bandhukapushpa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
boddi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chanda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chandakala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chandakanne	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chandkal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chandoda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chandora	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chandrakala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chandrike	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chandwar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chinthakanni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jaathi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jaji-yuppala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jatiyuppalige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kali bui	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kanchupranthi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kanchupranti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kanjupparanti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
konda tamara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
konda-japhara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kondajaphara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kondatamara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pattavanni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pulichinjalamu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
upaligi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
uplige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
uppalige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
uppila	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vatta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vatta kunni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vatta-thamarei	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vattikanni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vattikkanni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vattittutti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ġurîra	Other	Med. Pl. Yemen (Fleurentin & Pelt, 1982)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaf		Med. Pl. Yemen (Fleurentin & Pelt, 1982)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 16 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Heliotropium curassavicum var. zeylanicum Burm.f. Fl. Indica: 41. t. 16, f. 2. (1768).
Heliotropium inconspicuum Dinter ex Vaupel Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 530 (1912).
Heliotropium subulatum (Hochst. ex A.DC.) Vatke Linnaea 43: 316 (1882).
Tournefortia stenoraca Klotzsch in W.C.H.Peters, Naturw. Reise Mossambique 6(Bot., 1): 250 (1861).
Tournefortia subulata Hochst. ex A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 9: 528 (1845).
Heliotropium gracile R.Br. in H.Salt, Voy. Abyss., App.: Ixii (1814), not validly publ.
Heliotropium linifolium Lehm. Pl. Asperif. Nucif.: 35 (1818).
Heliotropium saltianum Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 774 (1840), not validly publ.
Heliotropium subulatum var. arenarium Vatke Linnaea 43: 316 (1882).
Heliotropium zeylanicum var. arenarium (Vatke) Chiov. Fl. Somala 3: 141 (1936).
Heliotropium zeylanicum var. subulatum (Hochst. ex A.DC.) Chiov. Fl. Somala 3: 140 (1936).
Messerschmidia hispida Benth. in J.F.Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts.: 306 (1836).
Myosotis fruticosa L. Mant. Pl. 2: 201 (1771).
Tournefortia edgeworthii A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 9: 529 (1845).
Tournefortia royleana A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 9: 527 (1845).
Tournefortia zeylanica (Burm.f.) Wight Ill. Ind. Bot. 2: t. 170 (1850).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Heliotropium curassavicum Burm.f. zeylanicum	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Heliotropium inconspicuum Dinter ex Vaupel	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Heliotropium subalatum (Hochst. ex. A.DC.)Vatke	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Heliotropium subulatum (Hochst. ex A. DC.) Vatke	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Heliotropium subulatum (Hochst.) Vatke	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015)
Heliotropium subulatum Hochst.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Heliotropium subulatum Hoechst.	Med. Pl. Yemen (Fleurentin & Pelt, 1982)
Heliotropium zeylanicum	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015)
Heliotropium zeylanicum (Burm.f.) Lam.	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Heliotropium zeylanicum (Burm.f.)Lam.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Heliotropium zeylanicum Lam.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Tournefortia stenoraca Klotzsch in Peters	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Tournefortia subalata Hochst. ex A.DC.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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