Plant Details

Accepted name:: Adiantum pedatum L. [Pteridaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
adiante du canada	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
attuvanchi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
avenca do canadá	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
capillaire du canada	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
capillaria do canadá	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
five-finger fern	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
five-fingered fern	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
frilandsadiantum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
maidenhair fern	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
northern maidenhair	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
northern maidenhair fern	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
pointerweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
铁丝七	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
铁扇子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaf		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
leaf	vegetal drug, fluid extract	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 15 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Adiantum boreale C.Presl Tent. Pterid.: 158 (1836), not validly publ.
Adiantum pedatum var. glaucinum C.Chr. J. Washington Acad. Sci. 17: 498 (1927), nom. illeg.
Adiantum americanum Nieuwl. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 2: 280 (1912).
Adiantum grandifolium Ching Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol., n.s., 1: 269 (1949).
Adiantum pedatum f. billingsae Kittr. Amer. Fern J. 19: 56 (1929).
Adiantum pedatum f. contratum Yonek. & Keizo Sasaki J. Jap. Bot. 89: 361 (2014).
Adiantum pedatum var. kamtschaticum Rupr. Distr. Crypt. Vasc. Ross.: 49 (1845).
Adiantum pedatum var. lacinatum Hopkins Ohio Naturalist 10: 179 (1910).
Adiantum pedatum f. laciniatum (Hopkins) Weath. Amer. Fern J. 27: 52 (1937).
Adiantum pedatum var. originarium Wherry Amer. Fern J. 27: 58 (1937).
Adiantum pedatum var. praeflexum Copel. ex C.F.Baker West Amer. Pl. 2: 7 (1903).
Adiantum pedatum var. rangiferinum E.S.Burgess Proc. & Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada 4(4): 11 (1886).
Adiantum pedatum var. triangulare McCord Canad. Naturalist Geol., n.s., 1(5): 355 (1864).
Adiantum pedatum f. triangulare (McCord) M.Broun Index No. Amer. Ferns: 16 (1938).
Adiantum pedatum var. tripartitum Farw. Amer. Fern J. 27: 12 (1937).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Adianthum pedatum L.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Adiantum boreale Presl	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Adiantum pedatum	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Adiantum pedatum L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) 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)
Adiantum pedatum L. ssp. pedatum	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Adiantum pedatum L. var. glaucinum C.Chr.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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