Plant Details

Accepted name:: Amana edulis (Miq.) Honda [Liliaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
lao ya ban	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
光慈姑	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 10 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Orithyia edulis Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 3: 158 (1867).
Tulipa edulis (Miq.) Baker J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 295 (1874).
Amana edulis f. duplexa Yashiro, Y.Ichihara & Iwase J. Jap. Bot. 85: 333 (2010).
Amana graminifolia (Baker) A.D.Hall Gen. Tulipa: 145 (1940).
Gagea argyi H.Lév. Mem. Pontif. Accad. Romana Nuovi Lincei 24: 352 (1906).
Gagea coreana H.Lév. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 8: 360 (1910).
Gagea hypoxioides H.Lév. Mem. Pontif. Accad. Romana Nuovi Lincei 24: 352 (1906).
Orithyia oxypetala A.Gray in M.C.Perry, Narr. Exped. China Japan 2: 322 (1857), nom. illeg.
Ornithogalum edule Siebold Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 12: 16 (1830), nom. nud.
Tulipa graminifolia Baker J. Bot. 13: 230 (1875).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Amana edulis (Miq.) Honda	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Orithyia edulis Miq.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Tulipa edulis	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Tulipa edulis (Miq.) Baker	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Tulipa edulis Baker	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)

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