Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dioscorea cirrhosa Lour. [Dioscoreaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
shu liang	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
shuliang	Other	Ethnobot. of Dye Pl. in Dong Communities of China (Liu et al., 2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
薯莨	Other	Ethnobot. of Dye Pl. in Dong Communities of China (Liu et al., 2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Tuber		Ethnobot. of Dye Pl. in Dong Communities of China (Liu et al., 2014)
Tuber		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 9 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Dioscorea rhipogonoides Oliv. Hooker's Icon. Pl. 19: t. 1868 (1889).
Dioscorea angusta R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 43: 288 (1924).
Dioscorea bonnetii A.Chev. Bull. Écon. Indochine, n.s., 20: 328 (1918).
Dioscorea camphorifolia Uline ex R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 43: 288 (1924).
Dioscorea cirrhosa var. cylindrica C.T.Ting & M.C.Chang Acta Phytotax. Sin. 20: 206 (1982).
Dioscorea intempestiva Prain & Burkill Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1933: 243 (1933).
Dioscorea matsudae Hayata Icon. Pl. Formosan. 10: 39 (1921).
Smilax petiolatumida B.R.Moore, Narkkong, Th.Moore & Lutat ScienceAsia 34: 47 (2008), without Latin descr.
Strophis cirrhosa (Lour.) Salisb. Gen. Pl.: 12 (1866).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Dioscorea cirrhosa	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Dioscorea cirrhosa Lour.	Ethnobot. of Dye Pl. in Dong Communities of China (Liu et al., 2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Dioscorea cirrhosa Loureiro	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Dioscorea cirrhosa Makino	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Dioscorea rhipogonoides	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Dioscorea rhipogonoides Oliv.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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