Plant Details

Accepted name:: Gomphocarpus tomentosus subsp. tomentosus [Apocynaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants
Infraspecies of:: Gomphocarpus tomentosus Burch.

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bergkapok	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
etampia	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
etamupya	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kotoni	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
melkbos	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
milkweed	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
omatamupya	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
omupia	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
omupya	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
wild cotton	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
wildekapok	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
wildgaring	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 4 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Asclepias lanata (E.Mey.) Druce Rep. Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 4: 605 (1916 publ. 1917).
Asclepias nutans (Klotzsch) N.E.Br. in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 4(1): 352 (1902).
Gomphocarpus lanatus E.Mey. Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr.: 202 (1838).
Gomphocarpus nutans Klotzsch in W.C.H.Peters, Naturw. Reise Mossambique 6(Bot., 1): 275 (1861).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Asclepias lanata (E.Mey.) Druce	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Asclepias nutans (Klotzsch) N.E.Br.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Gomphocarpus lanatus E.Mey.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Gomphocarpus nutans Klotzsch	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Gomphocarpus tomentosus Burch. tomentosus	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Gomphocarpus tomentosus subsp. tomentosus	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

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