Plant Details

Accepted name:: Adiantum capillus-veneris L. [Pteridaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
american maidenhair fern	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
ampanga	Other	Med. Pl. in Markets of Antananarivo, Madagascar (Randriamiharisoa et al., 2015)
avenca	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
avenca comum	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
baldırıkara otu	Other	Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
barêze	Other	Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
black maidenhair	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
black maidenhair fern	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cablo de vênus	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
capillaire de montpellier	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
capillaria de montpellier	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
common maidenhair	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
culantrillo	Other	Market Med. Pl. of Monterrey, Mexico (Nicholson & Arzeni, 1993) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
culantrillo de gruta	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
culantrillo de pozo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
culantrillo del pozo	Other	Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
fern	Other	Med. Floral Knwlg. of Sarban Hills, Pakistan (Ijaz et al., 2016)
gobalelota	Other	Med. Pl. for Diabetes in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Ocvirk et al., 2013)
gol-e siavoshi	Other	Survey in Kohghiluyeh va Boyer Ahmad, Iran (Mosaddegh et al., 2012)
hamsa raaja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hanglapudi	Other	Med. Pl. for Diabetes in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Ocvirk et al., 2013)
hanraj	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
hansapadi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
hansaraaja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
hanspadi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hansraj	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kalichari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kizberet el-bîr	Other	Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
kizbratal baer	Other	Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
kozborat-ol-ber	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
kuzbarat al-beer	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
kuzbarat al-bir	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
maidenhair fern	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Market Med. Pl. of Monterrey, Mexico (Nicholson & Arzeni, 1993)
maidenhair fern disorders	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
mubaaraka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
nesinka jhar	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
pakhale unyu	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
paresiāvashān	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
parshoshan	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Marketing of Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2003)
parsiaavashaan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
parsiavashan	Other	Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
parsiawashan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
parsiya washan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
perishoan	Other	Pl. for Snake and Scorpion Bite in N Pakistan (Butt et al., 2015)
persosha	Other	High Value Med. Pl. to Pakistani Communities (Sher et al., 2014)
qeyteran	Other	Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
rabutubutu	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
rock fern	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
seruppadai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
sha’r al-banat	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
siraj	Other	Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
southern maidenhair	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
southern maidenhair fern	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sumbal	Other	Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher & Al Yemeni, 2011) Ethnobot. Relevance of Weed Flora, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2016) Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011) Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010) Folk Med. Knwlg. & Consv., Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2006) Indig. Knwlg. of Med. Pl., Pakistan. (Khan et al., 2020) Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Hussain et al., 2006)
sumbul	Other	Med. Pl. & Consv. Status Pakistan (Razzaq et al., 2015)
tiě sī cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
tiě xiàn cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
tiě xiàn jué	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
venus hair	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) Pl. Used by Inhabitants of Ajloun, Jordan (Al-Quran, 2015) Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)
venus' hair fern	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
venus's hair fern	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
venus's maidenhair	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
venus-hair fern	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
venushår	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
walawenna	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
wū jiǎo máng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
xale reş	Other	Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
xencerok	Other	Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
zhuzongcao	Other	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
zhū máo qī	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
zhū zōng cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
شعر البنات	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
كزبرة البئر	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
كزبرة البير	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
پرسياوشان	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
کزبره البئر	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
වලාවැන්න	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
‫ شعر العجوز‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
烏腳芒	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
猪鬃草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
石中珠	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
豬毛七	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
豬鬃草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
鐵絲草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
鐵綫草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
鐵綫蕨	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaf		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
Aerial part		Survey in Kohghiluyeh va Boyer Ahmad, Iran (Mosaddegh et al., 2012)
Folium		Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
Whole Plant		High Value Med. Pl. to Pakistani Communities (Sher et al., 2014)
Fronds		Med. Floral Knwlg. of Sarban Hills, Pakistan (Ijaz et al., 2016)
Whole grass		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Aerial parts		Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Whole plant, Fruits		Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
Fronds		Pl. for Snake and Scorpion Bite in N Pakistan (Butt et al., 2015)
Whole plant		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
whole shoot system		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Leaves		Indig. Knwlg. of Med. Pl., Pakistan. (Khan et al., 2020)
Fronds		Med. Pl. & Consv. Status Pakistan (Razzaq et al., 2015)
whole plant		Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011)
Whole plant		Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010)
Fronds		Folk Med. Knwlg. & Consv., Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2006)
Whole plant		Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
Aerial parts		Pl. Used by Inhabitants of Ajloun, Jordan (Al-Quran, 2015)
leaf, aerial part, entire plant		Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
aerial parts		Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
leaf		Med. Pl. in Markets of Antananarivo, Madagascar (Randriamiharisoa et al., 2015)
leaves		Market Med. Pl. of Monterrey, Mexico (Nicholson & Arzeni, 1993)
leaves, rhizomes		Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
herb		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
leaf	vegetal drug, fluid extract	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
leaf		Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)
Whole Plant, Leaf		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 42 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Adiantum capillus Sw. J. Bot. (Schrader) 1800(2): 83 (1801), orth. var.
Adiantum affine Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 5: 448 (1810).
Adiantum africanum R.Br. in J.H.Tuckey, Narr. Exped. Zaire: 463 (1818).
Adiantum capillaceum Dulac Fl. Hautes-Pyrénées: 36 (1867).
Adiantum capillus-veneris f. cristatum Moxley Amer. Fern J. 9: 27 (1919).
Adiantum capillus-veneris var. daphnites W.Bull Nursery Cat. (William Bull) 68: 12 (1872).
Adiantum capillus-veneris f. fissum (Christ) Ching Acta Phytotax. Sin. 6: 343 (1957).
Adiantum capillus-veneris var. fissum Christ Monsunia 1: 66 (1900).
Adiantum capillus-veneris var. grande Pynaert Nursery Cat. (Éd. Pynaert - Van Geert) 1890(Suppl.): 4 (1890).
Adiantum capillus-veneris var. imbricatum Pynaert Nursery Cat. (Éd. Pynaert - Van Geert) 1893-1894: 4 (1893).
Adiantum capillus-veneris var. kenyense Chiov. Racc. Bot.: 146 (1935).
Adiantum capillus-veneris var. laciniatum Christ ex Tardieu & C.Chr. in H.Lecomte (ed.), Fl. Indo-Chine 7(2): 185 (1940).
Adiantum capillus-veneris f. lanyuanum W.C.Shieh Quart. J. Chin. Forest. 2: 165 (1968).
Adiantum capillus-veneris var. magnificum W.Bull Nursery Cat. (William Bull) 60: 118 (1871).
Adiantum capillus-veneris var. modestum (Underw.) Fernald Rhodora 52: 206 (1950).
Adiantum capillus-veneris var. polyhymnia Lowe Gard. Chron., n.s., 4: 81 (1875).
Adiantum capillus-veneris var. protrusum Fernald Rhodora 52: 203 (1950).
Adiantum capillus-veneris f. rimicola (Sloss.) Fernald Rhodora 52: 208 (1950).
Adiantum capillus-veneris subsp. trifidum (Willd. ex Bolle) Rivas Mart., Lousã, J.C.Costa & Maria C.Duarte Int. J. Geobot. Res. 7: 21 (2017).
Adiantum capillus-veneris var. trifidum (Willd. ex Bolle) Milde Fil. Eur.: 30 (1867).
Adiantum coriandrifolium Lam. Fl. Franç. 1: 29 (1779), nom. superfl.
Adiantum cuneifolium Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 4: 612 (1812).
Adiantum diaphanum var. affine (Willd.) Alderw. Malayan Ferns: 323 (1909).
Adiantum emarginatum Bory ex Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 5: 449 (1810).
Adiantum fontanum Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 404 (1796), nom. superfl.
Adiantum formosum J.Rémy ex Gay Fl. Chil. 6: 487 (1853), nom. illeg.
Adiantum fumarioides Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 5: 452 (1810).
Adiantum lingii Ching Acta Phytotax. Sin. 6: 341 (1957).
Adiantum maderense Lowe in unknown publication.
Adiantum marginatum Schrad. Gött. Gel. Anz. 1818: 918 (1818).
Adiantum michelii Christ Bull. Acad. Int. Géogr. Bot., sér. 3, 20: 12 (1910).
Adiantum modestum Underw. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 28: 46 (1901).
Adiantum moritzianum Link Fil. Spec.: 71 (1841).
Adiantum paradiseae Baker Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 6: 558 (1889).
Adiantum pseudocapillus Fée Mém. Foug., 5. Gen. Filic.: 118 (1852).
Adiantum remyanum Espinosa Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat., Santiago de Chile 15: 96 (1936).
Adiantum repandum Tausch Exsicc. (Syn. Fil.): n.° 176.
Adiantum rimicola Sloss. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 41: 308 (1914).
Adiantum schaffneri E.Fourn. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 27: 328 (1880).
Adiantum subemarginatum Christ Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 3: 511 (1903).
Adiantum trifidum Willd. ex Bolle Bonplandia (Hannover) 3: 121 (1855).
Adiantum visianii Schloss. & Vuk. Fl. Croat.: 1319 (1869).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Adiantum capillus	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Adiantum capillus veneris	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Adiantum capillus veneris L	Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010)
Adiantum capillus- veneris L.	Market Med. Pl. of Monterrey, Mexico (Nicholson & Arzeni, 1993) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
Adiantum capillus-veneris	Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997) Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
Adiantum capillus-veneris L	Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Hussain et al., 2006)
Adiantum capillus-veneris L.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher & Al Yemeni, 2011) Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011) Ethnobot. Relevance of Weed Flora, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2016) Ethnobot. in W Granada Province, Spain (Benítez et al., 2010) Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011) Ethnobot. of Swat Valley, Pakistan (Ali et al., 2018) Folk Med. Knwlg. & Consv., Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2006) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) High Value Med. Pl. to Pakistani Communities (Sher et al., 2014) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indig. Knwlg. of Med. Pl., Pakistan. (Khan et al., 2020) Med. Floral Knwlg. of Sarban Hills, Pakistan (Ijaz et al., 2016) Med. Pl. & Consv. Status Pakistan (Razzaq et al., 2015) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Ocvirk et al., 2013) Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998) Med. Pl. in Markets of Antananarivo, Madagascar (Randriamiharisoa et al., 2015) Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019) Med. Pl. in the Med.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) Pl. Used by Inhabitants of Ajloun, Jordan (Al-Quran, 2015) Pl. for Snake and Scorpion Bite in N Pakistan (Butt et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Survey in Kohghiluyeh va Boyer Ahmad, Iran (Mosaddegh et al., 2012) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Adiantum capillus-veneris Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015)
Adiantum capillus-veneris Linnaeus	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
Adiantum capillusveneris	Marketing of Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2003)

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