Plant Details

No trade or plant part information for this plant in the MPNS resource.

Kew's taxonomic resources include 13 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

• Acalypha agrestis Morong Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 7: 225 (1893).
• Acalypha amphigyne Moore Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 4: 467 (1895).
• Acalypha betuloides Klotzsch ex Baill. Adansonia 5: 228 (1865), nom. subnud.
• Acalypha communis var. agrestis (Morong) Chodat & Hassl. Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 1: 397 (1901).
• Acalypha communis var. intermedia Müll.Arg. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 11(2): 350 (1874).
• Acalypha communis var. obscura Müll.Arg. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 11(2): 350 (1874).
• Acalypha communis var. puberula Müll.Arg. Linnaea 34: 24 (1865).
• Acalypha communis var. tomentella Müll.Arg. Linnaea 34: 23 (1865).
• Acalypha communis var. tomentosa Müll.Arg. Linnaea 34: 23 (1865).
• Acalypha communis var. tomentosa Chodat & Hassl. Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 5: 604 (1905), nom. illeg.
• Acalypha gracilis Griseb. Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 24: 59 (1879), nom. illeg.
• Acalypha punctata D.Parodi Anales Soc. Ci. Argent. 11: 52 (1881), nom. nud.
• Acalypha virgata Vell. Fl. Flumin.: 10 (1829), nom. illeg.

This plant has not been found explicitly cited in the medicinal literature. MPNS has included this plant because its parent species (or an infraspecies belonging to it) is recorded as medicinal.

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