Plant Details

Accepted name:: Blainvillea acmella (L.) Philipson [Asteraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
agrião	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
agrião do pará	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
ankasa	Other	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
bai neng wei	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
brazilian cress	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
cabbage spilanthes	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
canela-de-urubú	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cresson de para	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
cúc áo hoa vàng	Other	Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
daun ludah	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
erva-palha	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
galang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
gatang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
gelang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
getang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
gletang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jambu	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
jambu-açu	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
jambu-rana	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
jambuí	Other	Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
jīn niǔ kòu	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kerabu	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kerbau	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
legetan	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
marhatitiga	Other	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
nhambu	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
nǐ qiān rì jú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
para cress	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
paracress	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
parakresse	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
pará cress	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
picão-grande	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pokok getah	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
sarunen	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
saruni sapi	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
spilante	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
spilanthe des potagers	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
spilanthes	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
spilanthes oleracea	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
spilanthis oleraceae herba	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
subang nenek	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
sàn xué cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
thumba	Other	Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014)
tiān wén cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
tooth-ache plant	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
toothache plant	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
yǔ sǎn cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
天文草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
拟千日菊	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
散学草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金钮扣	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
雨伞草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
鱼鳞菜	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
whole shoot system		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
whole herb	dry plant material	Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014)
herb, flower		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Flower		Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
flower, leaf	vegetal drug, tincture	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
entire plant, flower		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
entire plant, flower		Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 24 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Blainvillea latifolia (L.f.) DC. in R.Wight, Contr. Bot. India: 17 (1834).
Eclipta latifolia L.f. Suppl. Pl.: 378 (1782).
Spilanthes acmella (L.) L. in J.A.Murray (ed.), Syst. Veg., ed. 13.: 610 (1774).
Verbesina acmella L. Sp. Pl.: 901 (1753).
Acmella linnaei Cass. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 24: 330 (1822), nom. superfl.
Acmella mauritiana Pers. Syn. Pl. 2: 472 (1807).
Bidens acmella (L.) Lam. Encycl. 1: 415 (1785).
Blainvillea alba Edgew. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 20: 70 (1846).
Blainvillea hispida Edgew. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 20: 70 (1846).
Blainvillea polycephala Gardner London J. Bot. 7: 89 (1848).
Blainvillea racemosa Gardner London J. Bot. 7: 89 (1848).
Blainvillea rhomboidea var. lanceolata (Poir.) DC. Prodr. 5: 492 (1836).
Blainvillea rhomboidea var. polycephala (Gardner) Baker in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 6(3): 176 (1884).
Blainvillea rhomboidea var. racemosa (Gardner) Baker in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 6(3): 176 (1884).
Calyptocarpus burchellii Sch.Bip. Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 24: 165 (1866).
Ceratocephalus acmella (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 326 (1891).
Coreopsis acmella (L.) K.Krause Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 32(2): 340 (1914).
Ecliptica latifolia Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 334 (1891).
Eisenmannia clandestina Sch.Bip. ex Hochst. Flora 24(1, Intelligenzbl.): 42 (1841).
Oligogyne burchellii Hook. Hooker's Icon. Pl. 2: t. 101 (1837).
Pyrethrum acmella (L.) Medik. Hist. & Commentat. Acad. Elect. Sci. Theod.-Palat. 3: 243 (1775).
Verbesina dichotoma Wall. Numer. List: n.° 3204 (1831), not validly publ.
Verbesina lanceolata Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 8: 460 (1808).
Verbesina lavenia Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 442 (1832), nom. illeg.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Blainuillea acmella (L.) Phillipson	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Blainvillea acmella (L.) Philipson	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2022 (WHO-UMC, 2022) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Blainvillea acmella (L.) Phillipson	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Blainvillea latifolia (L. f.) DC.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Blainvillea latifolia (L.f.) DC.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Eclipta latifolia L. f.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Spilanthes acmelia	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Spilanthes acmella	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Spilanthes acmella (L.) L.	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Spilanthes acmella (L.) Murr.	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Spilanthes acmella (L.) Murray	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Spilanthes acmella L.	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
Spilanthes acmella Murr.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Spilanthes acmella Murray	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Spilanthes acmella auct. non L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Verbesina acmella L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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