Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dregea sinensis Hemsl. [Apocynaceae] ^{- (Awaiting Taxonomic Review)}
Source:: World Checklist ( Low Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ku sheng	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
苦绳	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Dregea sinensis Hemsl. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 26: 115 (1889).
Wattakaka sinensis (Hemsl.) Stapf Bot. Mag. 147: t. 8976 (1923).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Dregea sinenses Hemsl.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Dregea sinensis Hemsl.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Wattakaka sinensis (Hemsl.) Stapf	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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