Plant Details

Accepted name:: Pleopeltis polypodioides (L.) E.G.Andrews & Windham [Polypodiaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants
Infraspecies:: 2

Pleopeltis polypodioides var. knoblochiana (Mickel) A.R.Sm. & Tejero

Pleopeltis polypodioides var. polypodioides

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
calagiala	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
helecho hembra	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
polipodio	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
resurrection fern	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
siempre viva	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
weering grass	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaves		Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
whole plant		Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 4 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Polypodium polypodioides (L.) Watt Canad. Naturalist Geol., n.s., 13: 158 (1867).
Acrostichum polypodioides L. Sp. Pl.: 1068 (1753).
Candollea polypodioides (L.) Mirb. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck & C.F.B.de Mirbel, Hist. Nat. Vég. Cl. Fam. 5: 89 (1802).
Marginaria polypodioides (L.) Tidestr. Torreya 5: 171 (1905).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Pleopeltis polypodioides (L.) Andrews & Windham ssp. polypodioides	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Pleopeltis polypodioides (L.) E.G.Andrews & Windham	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Polypodium polypodioides (L.) Watt	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020) Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
Polypodium polypodioides (L.) Watt.	Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015)

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