Plant Details

Accepted name:: Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo [Asteraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
gorchak polzuchiy	Other	Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)
kakra	Other	Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)
russian knapweed	Other	Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)
soyloochu kekire	Other	Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)
talkha	Other	Med. Pl. in Balochistan, Pakistan (Bibi et al., 2014) Pl. for Geohelminth in Kalat District, Pakistan (Bibi et al., 2016)
苦蒿	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
顶羽菊	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Whole plant		Pl. for Geohelminth in Kalat District, Pakistan (Bibi et al., 2016)
Whole plant		Med. Pl. in Balochistan, Pakistan (Bibi et al., 2014)
herb, root, plant		Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 20 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Acroptilon repens (L.) DC. Prodr. 6: 663 (1838).
Centaurea picris Pall. ex Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 3: 2302 (1803).
Serratula amara Pall. Reise Russ. Reich. 1: 500 (1771).
Acroptilon angustifolium Cass. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 50: 466 (1827).
Acroptilon australe Iljin Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 7: 59 (1937).
Acroptilon obtusifolium Cass. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 50: 465 (1827).
Acroptilon picris (Pall. ex Willd.) C.A.Mey. Verz. Pfl. Casp. Meer.: 67 (1831).
Acroptilon picris var. acutifolium Jaub. & Spach Ill. Pl. Orient. 1: 23 (1842), nom. illeg.
Acroptilon picris var. angustifolium (Cass.) DC. Prodr. 6: 662 (1838).
Acroptilon picris var. obtusifolium (Cass.) DC. Prodr. 6: 662 (1838).
Acroptilon picris var. oxylepis DC. Prodr. 6: 662 (1838).
Acroptilon picris var. serratum (Cass.) DC. Prodr. 6: 662 (1838).
Acroptilon picris var. subdentatum (Cass.) DC. Prodr. 6: 662 (1838).
Acroptilon repens subsp. australe (Iljin) Rech.f. Fl. Iranica 139b: 309 (1980).
Acroptilon serratum Cass. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 50: 466 (1827).
Acroptilon subdentatum Cass. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 50: 465 (1827).
Carduus picris (Pall. ex Willd.) Sweet Hort. Brit., ed. 2: 281 (1830).
Centaurea repens L. Sp. Pl., ed. 2.: 1293 (1763).
Leuzea repens (L.) D.J.N.Hind Kew Bull. 74(2)-20: 2 (2019).
Serratula picris (Pall. ex Willd.) M.Bieb. Fl. Taur.-Caucas. 3: 546 (1819).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Acroptilon repens (Linn.) DC.	Med. Pl. in Balochistan, Pakistan (Bibi et al., 2014)
Acroptilon repens (Linnaeus) DC.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Centaurea picris Pall.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo	Pl. for Geohelminth in Kalat District, Pakistan (Bibi et al., 2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Serratula amara	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)

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