Plant Details

Accepted name:: Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) R.Br. [Convolvulaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aadambu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
aadu balli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
aaduballi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
aatambu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
adambu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
adambuballi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
adappangodi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
adapukodi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
adumbaballi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
adumbu balli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
adumbuburu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
atampa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
atampu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
atampuvalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
atappan koti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
atappankoti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
attukkal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
attukkalatampu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
attula	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
atumpu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
baalabandithige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
baedathige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bala banthi-tige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
balabandatige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
balabanditige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
balabantatige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bamgdvel	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bangada balli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bangadaballi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bangadivalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
batata-de-mar	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
batate ronde	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
batatilla	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
batatran	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) Med. Pl. Indian Ocean Ils. (Gurib-Fakim et al., 2004) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
bay hops	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
bay winders	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
bay-hops	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
bayhops	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
beach morning glory	Other	Med. Pl. E. Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996) Med. Plants of Yaegl Community, Australia. (Packer, 2012) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
beach morning-glory	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
bedateega	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bedatige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bejuco de playa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
boniata de playa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
capatakitakkoti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
capatakitam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cevullapillitige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chagalanghri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chagalantri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chevulapilli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chevulapillithige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chevulapillitige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chivulapillitige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chuvannatambu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chuvannatampu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
copalikai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cukannaatampu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cuvannatampu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dereg	Other	Handbook of Arabian Medicinal Plants (Ghazanfar, 1994)
dopateluta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dopatilata	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
getfotsipomea	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
ghavapatta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
goat foot vine	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
goat's foot	Other	Commercially Important African Med. Plants (Van Wyk, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
goat's-foot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
goat's-foot-convolvulus	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
goat’s foot convolvulus	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
goat’s foot creeper	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
horse’s footprint	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
hou teng	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
houteng	Other	Med. Pls. Used by Maonan People in China. (Hong et al., 2015)
ipomée pied de chèvre	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
kempu bangada balli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kempubangadaballi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kempubangaduballi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kudhirai kulambu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kutiraikkulampati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kutiraikulampu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
lalanda	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) Med. Pl. Indian Ocean Ils. (Gurib-Fakim et al., 2004)
liane batatran	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) Med. Pl. Indian Ocean Ils. (Gurib-Fakim et al., 2004)
liseron pied de chèvre	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
majani ya mwaka	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
mankulampu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
manmatha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maralu balli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maravalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
marjaad bael	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
marjadvel	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maryada	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maryadavalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maryadvalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maryadvel	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maryadvelo	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
masuravidala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mlakasa	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
mucakkattukirai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mucalkatilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mucalkatukkirai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mucarralai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muhudu binthamburu	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
musalkadhukkirai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
musattalai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mutavattukkal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muyaikathilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muyalkatilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nittukkal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nittukkarceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palikai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
paliru	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pancunalakakkoti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pancunalakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
patate bord de mer	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
patate marron	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
patate à durand	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) Med. Pl. Indian Ocean Ils. (Gurib-Fakim et al., 2004) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
patatran	Other	Med. Pl. Indian Ocean Ils. (Gurib-Fakim et al., 2004)
pirampukkoti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
poumpou	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) Med. Pl. Indian Ocean Ils. (Gurib-Fakim et al., 2004)
pulu kuma kungka	Other	Med. Plants for Diabetes in C. America (Giovannini et al., 2016)
railroadvine	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
raktapushpa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sagara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sagaramekhala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
salsa-de-praia	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. N.E.Braz. (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. N.E.Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
samudraphen	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
schovanna-adambu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
schovannaadamboe	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seaside yam	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
sra bras	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sumudraphen	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
syama	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vahindalalana	Other	Med. Pl. Indian Ocean Ils. (Gurib-Fakim et al., 2004)
vahindalalana.	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
vekam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vekikakkoti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vekikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
veram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vicatturu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vicatturukakkoti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vicatturukam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vikatturu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vilattaru	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vilattarukkoti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vrddhadaraka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vridhadarak	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yugmapatra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ziegenfuß-prunkwinde	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
මුහුදු බින්තඹුරු	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
厚藤	Other	Med. Pls. Used by Maonan People in China. (Hong et al., 2015)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaves, roots		Commercially Important African Med. Plants (Van Wyk, 2015)
leaf, stem		Med. Plants of Yaegl Community, Australia. (Packer, 2012)
Whole plant		Med. Pls. Used by Maonan People in China. (Hong et al., 2015)
Leaves, Whole plant		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
leaf, whole plant		Med. Pl. Indian Ocean Ils. (Gurib-Fakim et al., 2004)
leaf		Med. Pl. E. Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)
entire plant		Med. Pl. N.E.Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
entire plant		Med. & Pois. Pl. N.E.Braz. (Agra et al., 2007)
Root, Whole Plant		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
whole plant, leaf, root		African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 34 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Convolvulus pes-caprae L. Sp. Pl.: 159 (1753).
Ipomoea biloba Forssk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 44 (1775).
Ipomoea brasiliensis (L.) Sweet Hort. Suburb. Lond.: 35 (1818).
Ipomoea pes-caprae subsp. brasiliensis (L.) Ooststr. Blumea 3: 533 (1940).
Batatas maritima (R.Br.) Bojer Hortus Maurit.: 225 (1837).
Bonanox orbicularis (Elliott) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 1: 77 (1837).
Convolvulus bauhiniifolius Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 125 (1796).
Convolvulus biglandulosus Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 1: 326 (1812), nom. superfl.
Convolvulus bilobatus Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2: 73 (1824).
Convolvulus brasilianus L. Fl. Jam.: 14 (1759), orth. var.
Convolvulus brasiliensis L. Sp. Pl.: 159 (1753).
Convolvulus capripes Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 1: 327 (1812), nom. superfl.
Convolvulus maritimus Desr. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 3: 550 (1792), nom. illeg.
Convolvulus retusus Colla Hortus Ripul., App. 3: 31 (1828).
Convolvulus rotundifolius Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 102 (1827), nom. illeg.
Ipomoea aegopoda St.-Lag. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon 7: 70 (1880), nom. superfl.
Ipomoea bilobata (Roxb.) Sweet Hort. Brit., ed. 2: 373 (1830).
Ipomoea bilobata var. emarginata (Hallier f.) F.N.Williams Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 5: 438 (1905).
Ipomoea brevipes Moc. & Sessé ex Choisy in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 9: 349 (1845).
Ipomoea maritima R.Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland.: 486 (1810).
Ipomoea orbicularis Elliott Sketch Bot. S. Carolina 1: 257 (1817).
Ipomoea pes-caprae f. albiflora B.C.Stone Malayan Nat. J. 27: 17 (1974), nom. illeg.
Ipomoea pes-caprae f. albiflora Domin Biblioth. Bot. 22(89): 536 (1928).
Ipomoea pes-caprae f. arenaria Dammer in H.G.A.Engler, Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas, C: 332 (1895).
Ipomoea pes-caprae var. biloba (Forssk.) Hallier f. Annuario Reale Ist. Bot. Roma 7: 231 (1898).
Ipomoea pes-caprae var. emarginata Hallier f. Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 37: 98 (1898).
Ipomoea pes-caprae var. perunkulamensis P.Umam. & P.Daniel J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 23: 691 (1999).
Ipomoea rotundifolia G.Don Gen. Hist. 4: 265 (1837), nom. illeg.
Latrienda brasiliensis (L.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 81 (1838).
Plesiagopus brasiliensis (L.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 78 (1838).
Plesiagopus cuneifolia Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 78 (1838).
Plesiagopus maritima Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 78 (1838).
Plesiagopus rotundifolia Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 78 (1838), nom. superfl.
Plesiagopus sovana Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 78 (1838), nom. superfl.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Convolvulus pes-caprae L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Ipomea pes-caprae (L.) R. Br.	Med. Plants for Diabetes in C. America (Giovannini et al., 2016)
Ipomoea biloba	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Ipomoea biloba Forsk.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Ipomoea biloba Forssk.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Ipomoea brasiliensi (L.) Sweet	Med. Plants of Yaegl Community, Australia. (Packer, 2012)
Ipomoea brasiliensis (L.) G.F.W. Mey	Fijian Medicinal Plants (Cambie & Ash, 1994)
Ipomoea brasiliensis (L.) Sweet	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Ipomoea brasiliensis Meyer	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Ipomoea pes-caprae	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) R. Br.	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Handbook of Arabian Medicinal Plants (Ghazanfar, 1994) Med. Pl. E. Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996) Native American Ethnobotany (Moerman, 1998) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) R.Br.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. & Pois. Pl. 2 (Valkenburg et al., 1999) Med. & Pois. Pl. N.E.Braz. (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. N.E.Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Med. and Magical Pl. of S. Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Medicinal Plants of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2020 (WHO-UMC, 2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021)
Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) R.Br. ssp. Brasiliensis (L.) Ooststr.	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) R.Br. subsp. brasiliensis (L.) Ooststr.	Med. and Magical Pl. of S. Africa (Arnold et al., 2002)
Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) Sweet ssp. brasiliensis (L.) Ooststr.	Trad. Aboriginal Meds in N. Territory (Barr et al., 1993)
Ipomoea pes-caprae L.	Commercially Important African Med. Plants (Van Wyk, 2015)
Ipomoea pes-caprae Sweet	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Ipomoea pes-caprae ssp. brasiliensis (L.) R. Br.	Med. Pl. Indian Ocean Ils. (Gurib-Fakim et al., 2004)
Ipomoea pescaprae (L.) R. Br.	Med. Pls. Used by Maonan People in China. (Hong et al., 2015)
Ipomoea pescaprae subsp. brasiliensis (L.) Ooststr.	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)

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