Plant Details

Accepted name:: Homalomena occulta (Lour.) Schott [Araceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
cian nian jian	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
homalomena	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
homalomena rhizome	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
homalomenae rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
obscured homalomena	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
obscured homalomena rhizome	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
qian nian jian	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
qiannianjian	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
qiān kē zhēn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
qiān nián jiàn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
rhizoma homalomenae	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
yī bāo zhēn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
一包針	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
千年健	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
千年見	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
千顆針	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
rhizome	dried rhizome	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Rhizome		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Rhizome		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
rhizome		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
rhizome		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)

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

Calla occulta Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 532 (1790).
Homalomena cochinchinensis Engl. Pflanzenr., IV, 23Da: 55 (1912).
Spirospatha occulta (Lour.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 8 (1838).
Zantedeschia occulta (Lour.) Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 3: 765 (1826).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Calla occulta Lour.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Holalomena occulta	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Homalomena cochinchinensis Engl.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Homalomena occulta	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Homalomena occulta (Lour.) Schot	Neuraminidase Inhib. Med. Pl. in Lingnan TCM (Liu et al., 2018)
Homalomena occulta (Lour.) Schott	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Homalomena occulta (Lour.) Schott.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Homalomena occulta (Loureiro) Schott	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Homalomena occulta Schott	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Homalomena occulta Schott.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Homalomenae occulta (Lour.) Schott	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Homalonema occulta (Lour.) Schott	Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)

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