Plant Details

Accepted name:: Iresine diffusa f. herbstii (Hook.) Pedersen [Amaranthaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Iresine diffusa Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
Infraspecies:: 2

Iresine diffusa f. diffusa

Iresine diffusa f. lindenii (Van Houtte) L.B.Sm. & Downs

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
beefsteak plant	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
escancel	Other	Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
hóng diàn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
hóng mù ěr	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
hóng yáng xiàn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
hóng yè xiàn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pashquete	Other	Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
xuè xiàn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
yuán yè xiàn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
yī kǒu hóng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
zhǐ xuè xiàn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
一口紅	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
一口红	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
圆叶苋	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
圓葉莧	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
止血莧	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
紅木耳	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
紅羊莧	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
紅葉莧	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
紅靛	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
红木耳	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
红靛	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
血苋	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
血莧	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Flower		Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
whole shoot system		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
aerial part, leaf		Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 22 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Iresine herbstii Hook. Gard. Chron. 1864: 654 (1864).
Achyranthes acuminata Hovey Nursery Cat. (Hovey & co.) 1882: 15 (1882).
Achyranthes acuminata aurea Hovey Nursery Cat. (Hovey & co.) 1882: 15 (1882).
Achyranthes aureus-reticulatus Hovey Nursery Cat. (Hovey & co.) 1882: 15 (1882).
Achyranthes biemuelleri F.Haage & E.Schmidt ex Voss Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 872 (1895).
Achyranthes colinsii Hovey Nursery Cat. (Hovey & co.) 1883: 1 (1883).
Achyranthes emersonii Hovey Nursery Cat. (Hovey & co.) 1882: 15 (1882).
Achyranthes gilsonii Hovey Nursery Cat. (Hovey & co.) 1882: 15 (1882).
Achyranthes herbstii (Hook.) Hovey Mag. Hort. Bot. 32: 10 (1866).
Achyranthes hoveyi Hovey Nursery Cat. (Hovey & co.) 1882: 15 (1882).
Achyranthes verschaffeltii Lem. Ill. Hort. 1846: t. 409 (1846).
Achyranthes wallisii Van Geert Nursery Cat. (Auguste Van Geert) 76: 2 (1878).
Iresine acuminata Jacob-Makoy Nursery Cat. (L. Jacob-Makoy & Co.) 114: 6 (1870), nom. illeg.
Iresine aureoreticulata Saul Gard. Monthly & Hort. 10: 64 (1868).
Iresine biemuelleri Voss Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 872 (1895).
Iresine desboisii Van Geert Nursery Cat. (Auguste Van Geert) 83: 17 (1882).
Iresine herbstii var. acuminata B.S.Williams Choice Stove Orn.-Leav. Pl.: 221 (1870).
Iresine herbstii var. aureoreticulata Guillaumin Ann. Inst. Bot.-Géol. Colon. Marseille, sér. 6, 5-6: 21 (1948).
Iresine hoveyi Voss Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 872 (1895).
Iresine reticulata Anon. Gard. Chron., n.s., 1: 415 (1874).
Iresine verschaffeltii (Lem.) Van Houtte J. Gén. Hort. 15: 191 (1864).
Iresine wallisii Ortgies Gartenflora 27: 50 (1878).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Iresine Herbstii	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Iresine diffusa f. herbstii (Hook.) Pedersen	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2022 (WHO-UMC, 2022)
Iresine herbstii	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Iresine herbstii Hook	Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
Iresine herbstii Hook.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
Iresine herbstii Hook. F.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Iresine herbstii Hook. f.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Iresine herbstii Hook. f. ex Lindl.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Iresine herbstii Hook.f.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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