Plant Details

Accepted name:: Vincetoxicum versicolor (Bunge) Decne. [Apocynaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bai wei	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
baiwei	Other	Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015)
bian se bai qian	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
blackend swallowwort	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
blackend swallowwort root	Other	Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010)
blackened swallowwort root	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
cynanchi atrati radix et rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
radix cynanchi atrati	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
radix et rhizoma cynanchi atrati	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
白薇	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
rhizome, root	dried root and rhizome	Pharmacop. of China (2010)
root	dried root and rhizome	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
root, rhizome	dried root and rhizome	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
rhizome, root	dried root and rhizome	Pharmacop. of China (2005)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 3 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cynanchum versicolor Bunge Enum. Pl. China Bor.: 44 (1833).
Cynanchum mandschuricum (Hance) Hemsl. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 26: 107 (1889).
Vincetoxicum mandschuricum Hance Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 5, 5: 227 (1866).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cynanchum uersicolor Bunge	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Cynanchum versicolor Bge.	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Cynanchum versicolor Bunge	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Cynanchum versicolour Bge.	Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010)
Vincetoxicum versicolor (Bunge) Decne.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Vincetoxicum versicolor Decne.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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