Plant Details

Accepted name:: Osbeckia aspera (Meerb. ex Walp.) Blume [Melastomataceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bowittiya	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
citnaqueri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaattusiruthumbai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katou-kadah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katou-kadali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kattukkadalai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kattukkadali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kattukkatalai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kattukkatali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
paarivalipatchilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tinisah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
totukara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 13 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Melastoma asperum L. Sp. Pl.: 389 (1753).
Osbeckia lawsonii Gamble Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1918: 242 (1918).
Asterostoma aspera (Meerb. ex Walp.) Blume Mus. Bot. 1: 50 (1849).
Asterostoma kleinii (Wight & Arn.) Blume Mus. Bot. 1: 50 (1849).
Melastoma asperum Meerb. ex Walp. Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 136 (1843).
Melastoma glaucum Wall. Numer. List: n.° 4055 (1831), not validly publ.
Osbeckia aspera var. courtallensis (Gamble) Murugan & Manickam Fl. Tirunelveli Hills 1: 406 (2008).
Osbeckia aspera var. kleinii (Wight & Arn.) C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 2: 519 (1879).
Osbeckia capitata D.Don ex Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 323 (1834), pro syn.
Osbeckia courtallensis Gamble Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1918: 242 (1918).
Osbeckia kewensis C.E.C.Fisch. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1938: 34 (1938).
Osbeckia kleinii Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 323 (1834).
Osbeckia minor Triana Trans. Linn. Soc. London 28: 55 (1871 publ. 1872).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Melastoma asperum L.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Osbeckia aspera Blume	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Osbeckia lawsonii Gamble	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

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