Plant Details

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

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
akar lupang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
akar ulam tikus	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
cheroma	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
climbing hempvine	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
climbing hempweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
guaco	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
guaco-do-jardim	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
guaco-do-quintal	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
louse plaster	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
louse-plaster	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
selepat tungau	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
southern hempvine	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaves		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 9 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Mikania batataefolia DC. Prodr. 5: 197 (1836).
Eupatorium scandens L. Sp. Pl.: 836 (1753).
Mikania angulosa Raf. Fl. Ludov.: 62 (1817).
Mikania menispermea DC. Prodr. 5: 200 (1836).
Mikania pubescens Muhl. Cat. Pl. Amer. Sept.: 71 (1813).
Mikania scandens subvar. mollis Chodat Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 3: 712 (1903).
Mikania scandens f. pubescens (Muhl.) Voss Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 449 (1894).
Willoughbya scandens Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 371 (1891).
Willoughbya scandens var. normalis Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 372 (1891), not validly publ.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Mikania batatifolia DC	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Mikania scandens	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Mikania scandens (L.) Willd.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Mikania scandens Wild.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Mikania scandens Willd.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015)
Mikania scandens Willdenow	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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