Plant Details

Accepted name:: Swertia angustifolia var. minor (D.Don) ined. [Gentianaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Swertia angustifolia Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
Infraspecies:: Swertia angustifolia var. angustifolia

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bhunimbaha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chirayatha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katunima	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kiraatatikta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
青叶胆	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)

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

Ophelia elegans Wight Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 4: t. 1331 (1848).
Ophelia pulchella D.Don Trans. Linn. Soc. London 17: 525 (1837), nom. superfl.
Swertia affinis C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 4: 126 (1883).
Swertia angustifolia var. pulchella Burkill J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 2: 375 (1906).
Swertia lacei Craib Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1911: 191 (1911).
Swertia pulchella C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 4: 125 (1883), nom. superfl.
Swertia vacillans (Hance) Maxim. Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, sér. 3, 27: 504 (1882).
Ophelia affinis Wight & Arn. in R.Wight, Ill. Ind. Bot. 2: 175, t. 157 bis (1850), analysis, but no illustration.
Ophelia porrigens G.Don Gen. Hist. 4: 178 (1837).
Ophelia pratensis Edgew. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 20: 85 (1846).
Ophelia pulchella var. minor D.Don Trans. Linn. Soc. London 17: 525 (1837).
Ophelia pulchella var. pumila Griseb. Gen. Sp. Gent.: 318 (1839).
Ophelia vacillans Hance Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 5, 5: 229 (1866).
Swertia dielsiana Hosseus Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10: 63 (1911).
Swertia elegans Wall. Numer. List: n.° 4376 (1831), not validly publ.
Swertia esquirolii H.Lév. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 187 (1913).
Swertia exacoides Burkill J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 2: 321 (1906).
Swertia florida Wall. Numer. List: n.° 4382 (1831), not validly publ.
Swertia paupera Burkill J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 2: 322 (1906).
Swertia pulchella var. elegans C.B.Clarke in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 4: 125 (1883).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Ophelia elegans Wight	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Ophelia pulchella D.Don	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Swertia affinis C. B. Clarke.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Swertia affinis C.B. Clarke	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Swertia angustifolia Buch.-Ham. Ex D. Den var. Pulchella (D. Den) Burk.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Swertia angustifolia Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don var. PULCHELLA (D. Don) Burkill	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Swertia angustifolia Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don var. pulchella	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Swertia angustifolia Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don var. pulchella (D.Don) Burk.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Swertia angustifolia Buch.-Ham. var. pulchella Bulkill	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Swertia lacei Craib	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Swertia pulchella Buch.-Ham.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Swertia pulchella Ham. ex D.Don	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Swertia vacillans Maxim.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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