Plant Details

Accepted name:: Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [Amaryllidaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bushman poison bulb	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
candelabra flower	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
cape poison bulb	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
fan-leaved boophone	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
fire-ball lily	Other	Useful Pl. of Kongo C Province, Vol 1-2 (Latham & ku Mbuta, 2017)
fächerzwiebel	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
g//aasa	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
gifbol	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ibhade	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
incotha	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
incotho	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
incumbe	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
incwadi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
inswadi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ishwadi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kopseerblom	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kxutsana-ya-naha	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
leshoma	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
malgif	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
motlatsisa	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
musesa	Other	Useful Pl. of Kongo C Province, Vol 1-2 (Latham & ku Mbuta, 2017)
muwandwe	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
perdespook	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
poison bulb	Other	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
seerooglelie	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
siphahluka	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
sore-eye flower	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
tumble weed	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
tumblehead	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
tumbleweed	Other	Useful Pl. of Kongo C Province, Vol 1-2 (Latham & ku Mbuta, 2017)
veld fan	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
wind ball	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Bulb		Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 16 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Boophone longipedicellata Pax Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 10: 4 (1888).
Amaryllis disticha L.f. Suppl. Pl.: 195 (1782).
Amaryllis toxicaria (L.f. ex Aiton) D.Dietr. Syn. Plant. 2: 1181 (1840).
Boophone intermedia M.Roem. Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 4: 59 (1847).
Boophone toxicaria (L.f. ex Aiton) Herb. Appendix: 18 (1821).
Boophone toxicaria var. obtusifolia Herb. Appendix: 18 (1821).
Brunsvigia ciliaris (L.) Ker Gawl. Bot. Reg. 3: t. 192, 193 (1817).
Brunsvigia disticha (L.f.) Sweet Hort. Brit.: 404 (1826).
Brunsvigia rautanenii Baker Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 3: 667 (1903).
Brunsvigia toxicaria (L.f. ex Aiton) Ker Gawl. Bot. Reg. 7: t. 567 (1821).
Haemanthus ciliaris L. Sp. Pl., ed. 2.: 413 (1762).
Haemanthus distichus (L.f.) L.f. ex Savage Herbertia 4: 97 (1937).
Haemanthus lemairei De Wild. Contr. Fl. Katanga: 33 (1921).
Haemanthus robustus Pax Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 15: 140 (1892).
Haemanthus sinuatus Schult. & Schult.f. in J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 7: 892 (1830), nom. nud.
Haemanthus toxicarius L.f. ex Aiton Hort. Kew. 1: 405 (1789), nom. superfl.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Boophane disticha	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
Boophane disticha (L.f.) Herb.	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002)
Boophane disticha (L.fil.) Herb.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998)
Boophone disticha	Red List Med. Pl. of S Africa (Williams et al., 2013) Useful Pl. of Kongo C Province, Vol 1-2 (Latham & ku Mbuta, 2017)
Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb.	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. & Fungi Project (2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Boophone disticha (L.f.)Herb.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Boophone disticha Herbich	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Boophone longepedicellata Pax	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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