Plant Details

Accepted name:: Euphorbia hypericifolia L. [Euphorbiaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
acamelikacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
acamelikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
acocotli quaunhnahuacense	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
acoglla	Other	Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
black parsley	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
canchlagua	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
chickenweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
dhaktidudhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dudhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dudhikalave	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dudhmogra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dugdhika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
erva de san luzie	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
euphorbia hypericifolia	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
golondrina	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
graceful sandmat	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
graceful spurge	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
hakshardana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hazardana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
herbe colique	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
karuppamman paccarici	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
large spotted spurge	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
lecheleche	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
lechera	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lechosa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
mapempe	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
milkweed	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
nir-cottam-pala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
spurge, black	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
yerba de la golondrina	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
yerba golondrina	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
yerba lechera	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
fruit, aerial part		Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)

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

Chamaesyce hypericifolia (L.) Millsp. Publ. Field Columb. Mus., Bot. Ser. 2: 302 (1909).
Euphorbia glomerifera (Millsp.) L.C.Wheeler Contr. Gray Herb. 127: 78 (1939).
Anisophyllum hypericifolium (L.) Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ.: 161 (1812).
Chamaesyce glomerifera Millsp. Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 2: 377 (1913).
Ditrita obliqua Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 115 (1838).
Euphorbia cuspidata Bertol. Misc. Bot. 3: 17 (1844), nom. illeg.
Euphorbia hypericifolia var. maculata Klotzsch in B.Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald: 276 (1856).
Euphorbia papilligera Boiss. Cent. Euphorb.: 8 (1860).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Chamaesyce hpericifolia (L.) Millsp.	Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016)
Chamaesyce hypericifolia	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Chamaesyce hypericifolia (L.) Millsp.	Fijian Med. Pl. (Cambie & Ash, 1994) Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015)
Euphorbia glomerifera	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Euphorbia glomerifera (Millsp.) Wheeler	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Trop. Africa (2015)
Euphorbia hypericifolia	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Euphorbia hypericifolia L.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Euphorbia hypericifolia Linnaeus	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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