Plant Details

Accepted name:: Diospyros lotus L. [Ebenaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
amlok	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Ethnobot. of Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Sher & Hussain, 2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indig. Uses of Pl. of Malakand, Pakistan (Habib-Ul-Hassan et al., 2015)
caqui	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
dadelplommon	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
date-plum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
faux lotier	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
goyomnamu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
guayacán africano	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
guiaca	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
guiacana	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
guyac de tadone	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
jun qian zi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lotus persimmon	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lotuspflaumenbaum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lotustree	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mame-gaki	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
plaqueminier lotier	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
shinano-gaki	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
toor amlook	Other	Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher & Al Yemeni, 2011) Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011) Marketing of Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2003)
tor amlok	Other	Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Hussain et al., 2006) Wild Pl. of Dughalgay Valley, Pakistan (Zeb et al., 2013)
tor amlook	Other	Folk Med. Knwlg. & Consv., Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2006) Indig. Knwlg. of Med. Pl., Pakistan. (Khan et al., 2020)
tour amlok	Other	High Value Med. Pl. to Pakistani Communities (Sher et al., 2014)
tur amlok	Other	Ethnomed. Uses of Edible Wild Fruits, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2015)
君迁子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Fruit		High Value Med. Pl. to Pakistani Communities (Sher et al., 2014)
Fruit		Marketing of Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2003)
Fruit		Indig. Knwlg. of Med. Pl., Pakistan. (Khan et al., 2020)
Fruit	Ripened fruit	Ethnobot. of Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Sher & Hussain, 2009)
Fruits		Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Hussain et al., 2006)
fruit, whole plant, leaves		Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011)
Fruits		Indig. Uses of Pl. of Malakand, Pakistan (Habib-Ul-Hassan et al., 2015)
Fruit		Ethnomed. Uses of Edible Wild Fruits, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2015)
Fruits, leaves		Folk Med. Knwlg. & Consv., Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2006)
Fruit		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Dactylus trapezuntinus Forssk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: xxxvi (1775).
Diospyros calycina Dippel Handb. Laubholzk. 1: 306 (1889), nom. illeg.
Diospyros lotus var. angustifolia Gaudin Fl. Helv. 6: 332 (1830).
Diospyros lotus f. ellipsoidea Makino Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 26: 397 (1912).
Diospyros lotus f. globosa Makino Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 26: 396 (1912).
Diospyros lotus var. laevis H.Ohba & S.Akiyama J. Jap. Bot. 91(Suppl.): 309 (2016).
Diospyros lotus f. longifolia Z.Y.Zhang Fl. Tsinling. 1(4): 395 (1983).
Diospyros lotus var. mollissima C.Y.Wu Fl. Rep. Trop. Subtrop. Yunnan 1: 21 (1965).
Diospyros lotus f. ovoidea Makino Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 26: 397 (1912).
Diospyros mediterranea Oken Allg. Naturgesch. 3(2): 935 (1841).
Diospyros umlovok Griff. Itin. Pl. Khasyah Mts.: 355 (1848).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Diospiros lotus L.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Diospyos lotus L.	Folk Med. Knwlg. & Consv., Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2006)
Diospyros lotus L.	Checklist of Korean Cult. Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Ethnomed. Uses of Edible Wild Fruits, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) 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) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Diospyros lotus Linn.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Diospyrus lotus	Marketing of Med. Pl. of Utror-Gabral Valleys, Pakistan (Hamayun et al., 2003)
Diospyrus lotus L	Ethnobot. of Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Sher & Hussain, 2009)
Diospyrus lotus L.	Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher & Al Yemeni, 2011) Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011) Indig. Uses of Pl. of Malakand, Pakistan (Habib-Ul-Hassan et al., 2015) Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Hussain et al., 2006) Wild Pl. of Dughalgay Valley, Pakistan (Zeb et al., 2013)

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