Plant Details

Accepted name:: Marsdenia tinctoria R.Br. [Apocynaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aka sanam	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
aka taman	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
akar tarum	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
java indigo	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tarum hutan	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
蓝叶藤	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaves		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Marsdenia tinctoria var. tomentosa Masam. ex Tsiang & P.T.Li Acta Phytotax. Sin. 12: 117 (1974).
Pergularia parviflora Blume Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 1056 (1826).
Asclepias tinctoria (R.Br.) Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 2: 43 (1832).
Cynanchum tingens Buch.-Ham. ex Hook.f. Fl. Brit. India 4: 34 (1883).
Marsdenia akkar Blanco Fl. Filip.: 118 (1837).
Marsdenia globifera Tsiang Sunyatsenia 3: 199 (1936).
Marsdenia monostachya Wall. ex Hook.f. Fl. Brit. India 4: 34 (1883), not validly publ.
Marsdenia tagudinia Blanco Fl. Filip.: 121 (1837).
Marsdenia tinctoria var. brevis Costantin in H.Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 4: 94 (1912).
Marsdenia tinctoria var. ryukyuensis Masam. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa 29: 60 (1939).
Pergularia tinctoria (R.Br.) Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 1: 844 (1824).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Marsdenia tinctoria	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Marsdenia tinctoria R. B. var. tomentosa Mas.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Marsdenia tinctoria R. Br	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Marsdenia tinctoria R. Br.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Marsdenia tinctoria R. Brown	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Marsdenia tinctoria R.Br.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Marsdenia tinctoria R.Br. var. tomentosa Mas.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Marsdenia tinctoria R.Brown	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Pergularia parviflora	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)

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