Plant Details

Accepted name:: Indigofera suffruticosa Mill. [Fabaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
amaretá	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
anil	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
anil de pasto	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
anil indigo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
anilcillo	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
anileiro	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
averie	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
añil	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020) Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015) Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001)
añil montes	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
añil platanillo	Other	Manual de Propagación de Pl. Med. (Durán García et al., 2016)
caá-hobí	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
ch’oh	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
ch’oj	Other	Manual de Propagación de Pl. Med. (Durán García et al., 2016)
daun tarum	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
guatemalan indigo	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
jiquilite	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
mexikanischer indigostrauch	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
neelum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nili	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nilini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
platanillo	Other	Pl. Med. de Matamba y Piñonal, Mexico (Escamilla et al., 2015)
plátano xiiw	Other	Manual de Propagación de Pl. Med. (Durán García et al., 2016)
qing dai	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
sekebah	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
shimaiya-viri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
small-leaved indigo	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
subshrub indigo	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
tarom	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
tarum	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
tarum padi	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
vilaiti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vishashodhani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vishasodanie	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
västindisk indigo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
west indian indigo	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
xiuquílitl	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
ye qing shu	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
ground seed, leaves		Manual de Propagación de Pl. Med. (Durán García et al., 2016)
leaves		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
leaves		Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
fruit, leaves		Pl. Med. de Matamba y Piñonal, Mexico (Escamilla et al., 2015)
dye extract from leaf		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
leaf, root		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
leaf, root		Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007)
Aerial parts, Dried stem, Entire plant, Leaf, Root		Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 23 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Indigofera angolensis D.Dietr. Syn. Plant. 4: 1036 (1847).
Indigofera anil L. Mant. Pl. 2: 272 (1771).
Indigofera divaricata Jacq. Pl. Hort. Schoenbr. 3: 61 (1798).
Indigofera guatimalensis Moc. & Sessé ex Prain & Baker f. J. Bot. 40: 139 (1902).
Indigofera micrantha Desv. Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 9: 410 (1826).
Indigofera uncinata G.Don Gen. Hist. 2: 208 (1832).
Anil divaricata (Jacq.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 939 (1891).
Anil tinctoria var. brachycarpa (DC.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 160 (1891).
Anil tinctoria var. vera Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 160 (1891).
Indigofera anil var. canescens J.A.Schmidt Beitr. Fl. Cap Verd. Ins.: 326 (1852).
Indigofera anil var. drepanocarpa O.Berg in O.C.Berg & C.F.Schmidt, Darstell. Beschr. Off. Gew. 4: 30d (1863).
Indigofera anil var. polyphylla DC. Prodr. 2: 225 (1825).
Indigofera argentea Blanco Fl. Filip., ed. 2.: 415 (1845), nom. illeg.
Indigofera argentea var. caerulea F.M.Bailey Queensl. Fl. 2: 388 (1900), nom. superfl.
Indigofera cornezuelo Moc. & Sessé ex DC. Prodr. 2: 225 (1825).
Indigofera guatimala Lunan Hort. Jamaic. 1: 420 (1814).
Indigofera suffruticosa var. canescens (J.A.Schmidt) Lobin Courier Forschungsinst. Senckenberg 81: 118 (1986).
Indigofera suffruticosa subsp. guatimalensis (Moc. & Sessé ex Prain & Baker f.) de Kort & G.Thijsse Blumea 30: 135 (1984).
Indigofera suffruticosa f. obtusifolia Fawc. & Rendle Fl. Jamaica 4: 16 (1920).
Indigofera suffruticosa var. polyphylla DC. Prodr. 2: 225 (1825).
Indigofera suffruticosa var. uncinata (G.Don) Berhaut Fl. Senegal, ed. 2: 50 (1967).
Indigofera tinctoria var. brachycarpa DC. Prodr. 2: 224 (1825).
Ononis anil Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 14 (1768).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Indigofera angolensis D.Dietr.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Indigofera anil	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Indigofera anil L.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Indigofera anil, Linn.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Indigofera divaricata Jacq.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Indigofera guatimalensis	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Indigofera guatimalensis Moc, Serr. & Cerv.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Indigofera micrantha Desv. non Bunge	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Indigofera nil L.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Indigofera suffruticosa	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Pl. Med. de Matamba y Piñonal, Mexico (Escamilla et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Indigofera suffruticosa Mill.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Manual de Propagación de Pl. Med. (Durán García et al., 2016) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015) Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Indigofera suffruticosa Millar	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
Indigofera suffruticosa Miller	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Indigofera sufruticosa Mill.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Indigofera uncinata G.Don	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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