Plant Details

Accepted name:: Croton gratissimus var. gratissimus [Euphorbiaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants
Infraspecies of:: Croton gratissimus Burch.

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
djélélé	Other	Pl. Méd. Vendues dans le Marché, Bénin (Adomou et al., 2012)
um gleigla	Other	Med. Pl. in E & C Africa (EL-Kamali, 2009)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leafy stem, root		Pl. Méd. Vendues dans le Marché, Bénin (Adomou et al., 2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 8 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Croton amabilis Müll.Arg. Flora 47: 537 (1864).
Croton zambesicus Müll.Arg. Flora 47: 483 (1864).
Croton antunesii Pax Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 23: 523 (1897).
Croton microbotryus Pax Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 10: 35 (1888).
Croton welwitschianus Müll.Arg. J. Bot. 2: 338 (1864).
Oxydectes amabilis (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 611 (1891).
Oxydectes welwitschiana (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 613 (1891).
Oxydectes zambesica (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 613 (1891).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Croton amabilis	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)
Croton gratissimus Burch. var. gratissimus	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Croton zambesicus	Pl. Méd. Vendues dans le Marché, Bénin (Adomou et al., 2012)
Croton zambesicus MiilLArg.	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002)
Croton zambesicus Muell. Arg.	Med. Pl. in E & C Africa (EL-Kamali, 2009)
Croton zambesicus Muell.Arg.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Croton zambesicus Mull.Arg.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Croton zambesicus Müll. Arg.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Croton zambesicus Müll.-Arg.	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Trop. Africa (2015)

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