Plant Details

Accepted name:: Iris domestica (L.) Goldblatt & Mabb. [Iridaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
belamcanda	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
belamcandae rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
biǎn zhú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
blackberry lily	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
blackberry lily rhizome	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
blackberry-lily	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
blackberry-lily rhizome	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
blackberrylily rhizome	Other	Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010)
cuun mopana'u	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
dasbaha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
dasbichandi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
dwarf tiger-lily	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
flor-leopardo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
fèng yì	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
hi-ogi	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
iris domestica whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
iris rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
iris tigre	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
jīn hú dié	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
leopard flower	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
leopard lily	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
leopard-lily	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
leopardblomma	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
leopardenblume	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
maravilla	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
mariposa	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
p'ien hou	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
panah arjuna	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pokok kipas	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
rhizoma belamcandae	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacop. of China (2005)
saisai	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
she gan	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) TCM Pl. for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011)
she kan	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
she kon	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
shegan	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
shenan	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
shè gān	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
shègàn	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
siai kan	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
surajkaanti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
tahdung las tu ismud	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
tarbare	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
tarbare ful	Other	MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017)
topiyaay	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
wū shàn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
xạ can	Other	Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
ye gan	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
yegan	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
乌扇	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
凤翼	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
剪刀鉸	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
射干	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Pl. for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
尾蝶花	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
山蒲扇	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
扁竹	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
烏吹	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
烏扇	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
烏蒲	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
紅花尾蝶花	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
紅蝴蝶花	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
紫金牛	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
翼吹	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
老君扇	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
草姜	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
蝴蝶蘭	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
野萱花	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
金蝴蝶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
鐵扁擔	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
開喉箭	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
鬼扇	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
鳳翼	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
麻虎扇子	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
黃遠	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
rhizome	dried rhizome	Pharmacop. of China (2010)
rhizome		Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Root		MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017)
Root		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Rhizome		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
rhizoma, root stock		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
rhizome, root, leaves, flower, seed		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
rhizome	fried rhizome	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
rhizome	fried rhizome	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021)
rhizomes		Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
rhizome		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Rhizomes, roots		Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
Root		Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
rhizome		Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
rhizome		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 22 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Belamcanda chinensis (L.) Redouté Liliac. 3: t. 121 (1805).
Belamcanda punctata Moench Methodus: 529 (1794), nom. superfl.
Ixia chinensis L. Sp. Pl.: 36 (1753), nom. cons.
Pardanthus chinensis (L.) Ker Gawl. Ann. Bot. (König & Sims) 1: 247 (1804).
Belamcanda chinensis var. curtata Makino J. Jap. Bot. 1: 28 (1917).
Belamcanda chinensis f. flava Makino J. Jap. Bot. 1: 28 (1917).
Belamcanda chinensis var. taiwanensis S.S.Ying Coloured Ill. Herbac. Pl. Taiwan 1: 237 (1980).
Belamcanda chinensis f. vulgaris Makino J. Jap. Bot. 1: 28 (1917).
Belamcanda flabellata Grey Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 96: 408 (1934).
Belamcanda pampaninii H.Lév. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 8: 59 (1910).
Bermudiana guttata Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 1: 109 (1812).
Epidendrum domesticum L. Sp. Pl.: 952 (1753).
Ferraria crocea Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 41 (1796).
Gemmingia chinensis (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 701 (1891).
Gemmingia chinensis f. aureoflora Makino Ill. Fl. Nippon: 713 (1940).
Gemmingia chinensis f. rubriflora Makino Ill. Fl. Nippon: 713 (1940).
Ixia ensifolia Noronha Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 5(4): 18 (1790), nom. nud.
Moraea chinensis (L.) Thunb. Fl. Jap.: 34 (1784).
Moraea guttata (Stokes) Stokes Bot. Comm. 1: 229 (1830).
Pardanthus nepalensis Sweet Hort. Brit.: 395 (1826).
Pardanthus sinensis Van Houtte Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 16: t. 1632 (1865).
Vanilla domestica (L.) Druce Rep. Bot. Exch. Club Soc. Brit. Isles 3: 425 (1913 publ. 1914).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Belamcanda chinense (L.) DC.	Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
Belamcanda chinensis	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Belamcanda chinensis (L.) D C.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC.	Checklist of Korean Cult. Pl. (Mun-Chan et al., 1986) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. & Pois. Pl. 1 (Padua et al., 1999) Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Belamcanda chinensis (L.) Dc.	Dr. Duke's Databases: Phytochemical Subset. (Duke, 2016)
Belamcanda chinensis (L.) Redoute	MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Belamcanda chinensis (L.)DC.	TCM Pl. for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011)
Belamcanda chinensis (Linnaeus) Redoute	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
Belamcanda chinensis DC.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Belamcanda chinensis Leman.	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
Belamcanda punctata	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Iris domestica (L.) Goldblatt & Mabb	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025)
Iris domestica (L.) Goldblatt & Mabb.	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Iris domestica Goldblatt & Mabb.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
Ixia chinensis L.	Med. & Pois. Pl. 1 (Padua et al., 1999) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Pardanthus chinensis	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Pardanthus chinensis (L.) Ker Gawl.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

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