Plant Details

Accepted name:: Artemisia afra Jacq. ex Willd. [Asteraceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
african wormwood	Other	African Herbal Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010) Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012)
afrikanischer wermut	Other	African Herbal Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
als	Other	African Herbal Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
alsem	Other	African Herbal Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
armoise d'afrique	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
armoise d’afrique	Other	African Herbal Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010)
artemisiae africanae herba	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
entilili	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
fifi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
fivi	Other	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
iliongana	Other	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
itasi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
juandimba	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
lengana	Other	African Herbal Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010) Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
lingana	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
llongana	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
lusanje	Other	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
luyanga	Other	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
mhlonyane	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mtasi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
omatylili	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
umhlonyana	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
umhlonyane	Other	African Herbal Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010) Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
umhlonyane umhlophe	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
umhlonyane womlambo	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
wild wormwood	Other	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
wild-als	Other	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
wilde als	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
wilde-als	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012)
wildeals	Other	African Herbal Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
wormwood	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
zengana	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Herb		Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015)
leaves, stems		Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012)
leaf, whole plant		Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
herb		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
above-ground parts	dried leaves and twigs or essential oil	African Herbal Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010)

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Artemisia afra	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Artemisia afra Jacq.	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Artemisia afra Jacq. ex Willd.	African Herbal Pharmacop. 1st edn. (2010) Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. & Fungi Project (2015) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Artemisia afra Jacquin	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Artemisia afra Willd.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Artemisia afra var afra Jacq.ex Willd	Wild-Harvested Spp. in Trade, S Africa (Petersen et al., 2012)
Artemisia afre	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)

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