Plant Details

Accepted name:: Heritiera littoralis Aiton [Malvaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
adavibaadamu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
adivibadamu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
atona	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
chomuntri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
comuntiri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
etuna	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
ho mediriya	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
kannadi-yilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kannady ilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mkokoshi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
msikundazi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mukuram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nagam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sundri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ඇටුණ	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
ඇටෝණ	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
හෝ-මැදිරිය	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 10 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Heritiera minor (Gaertn.) Lam. Encycl. 3: 229 (1789).
Amygdalus litoralis (Aiton) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 75 (1891).
Balanopteris minor Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 94 (1790).
Balanopteris tothila Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 94 (1790).
Heritiera fischeri Regel & Rach Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1858: 45 (1859).
Heritiera littoralis subsp. ralima Arènes Mém. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Sér. B, Biol. Vég. 7: 78 (1956).
Heritiera tothila Kurz J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 43: 118 (1874).
Samadera littoralis (Aiton) Oken Allg. Naturgesch. 3(2): 1205 (1841).
Sutherlandia littoralis (Aiton) J.F.Gmel. Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis].: 1027 (1792).
Systemon fischeri Regel Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1856: 38 (1856).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Heritiera littoralis	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Heritiera littoralis Ait.	Fijian Med. Pl. (Cambie & Ash, 1994)
Heritiera littoralis Aiton	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Heritiera littoralis Dryand.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Heritiera littoralis Dryand. Ex W. Ait.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Heritiera minor Lam.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

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