Plant Details

Accepted name:: Calamus draco Willd. [Arecaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
catikkilanku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ch'i lin chieh	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
curalkilanku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
damlul akhwain	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
damm-ul-akhwain	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
drachenblutpslmr	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
draconis sanguis	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
dragon's blood	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
dragon's blood palm	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
dragon's-blood	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
dragon's-blood palm	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
dragon’s blood	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
drakblodspalm	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
drakenblodes	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
east indian dragon’s blood	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
heeraadokhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
hsueh chieh	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
k'o liu	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
kandamoorgarittum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khadgamrigamnetturu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khadgamriganettaru	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khadgamrygamunetturu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khadgamryganettaru	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khoonkharaabaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
prappankilanku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
qi lin jie	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
raktaniryaas	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
raktaniryasa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
reed dragons blood	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
resina draconis	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
san dragon	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
sang-dragon	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
sanguis draconis	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
sie jie	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
tevattirattal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
xie jie	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
xue jie	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
xuejie	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015)
血竭	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
fruit	resin of the fruit	Pharmacop. of China (2010)
	red resin	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Gum resin		Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
resin of the fruit		Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
resin		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
resin		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
resin		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
fruit	resin of the fruit	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
fruit	lumpy mass, heated and depressed resin exudate	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
fruit		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 4 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Calamus draco Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 2: 203 (1799).
Daemonorops draco (Willd.) Blume Rumphia 2: viii (1838).
Palmijuncus draco (Willd.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 732 (1891).
Calamus draconis Oken Allg. Naturgesch. 3(1): 648 (1841).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Calamus draco	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Calamus draco Willd.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2022 (WHO-UMC, 2022) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Daemonorops draco	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Daemonorops draco (Willd.) Blume	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Daemonorops draco BI.	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Daemonorops draco Bl.	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Daemonorops draco Blume	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
Daemonorops draco Blume.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Daemonoropsdraco Bl.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Palmijuncus draco	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)

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