Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dioscorea collettii Hook.f. [Dioscoreaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 3

Dioscorea collettii var. collettii

Dioscorea collettii var. izuensis (Akahori) Hiroshi Noda & M.N.Tamura

Dioscorea collettii var. hypoglauca (Palib.) S.J.Pei & C.T.Ting

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
九子不离母	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 1 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Dioscorea gracillima var. collettii (Hook.f.) Uline ex R.Knuth in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 43: 253 (1924).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Dioscorea collettii	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Dioscorea collettii Hook. f.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Dioscorea collettii Hook.f.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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