Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dicoma capensis Less. [Asteraceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
fieberbusch	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
g?n-!uru	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
guu!urus	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
guu\|urus	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
karmedik	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
koorsbossie	Other	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
wild camille	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
wilde karmedik	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 3 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Berkheya albida Lichtst. ex DC. Prodr. 7: 36 (1838).
Gorteria personata E.Mey. ex DC. Prodr. 7: 36 (1838).
Tibestina lanuginosa Maire Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., sér. 2, 4: 910 (1932).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Dicoma capensis	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Dicoma capensis Less.	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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