Plant Details

Accepted name:: Breynia fruticosa (L.) Müll.Arg. [Phyllanthaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
guǐ huà fú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
gé là kín	Other	Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013)
hēi miàn shén	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
hēi miàn yè	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pǎi yīng	Other	Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013)
tiě jiǎ jiāng jūn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
鐵甲將軍	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
鬼畫符	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
黑面叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
黑面神	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
黑面葉	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaves, roots		Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013)
root, leaf		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 7 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Andrachne fruticosa L. Sp. Pl.: 1014 (1753).
Melanthesa chinensis Blume Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 592 (1826).
Melanthesa glaucescens Miq. J. Bot. Néerl. 1: 97 (1861).
Phyllanthus introductus Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 327 (1841).
Phyllanthus lucens Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 5: 206 (1804).
Phyllanthus simsianus Benth. in N.Wallich, Numer. List: n.° 7920 (1847), nom. nud.
Phyllanthus turbinatus Sims Bot. Mag. 44: t. 1862 (1817).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Andrachne fruticosa L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Breynia fructicosa Hooker	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Breynia fruticosa (L.) Hook. f.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Breynia fruticosa (L.) Hook.f.	Med. & Pois. Pl. 2 (Valkenburg et al., 1999) Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Breynia fruticosa (L.) Mull.arg.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Breynia fruticosa (L.) Müll.Arg.	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Breynia fruticosa (Linn.) Hook.f.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Breynia fruticosa (Müll.Arg.) Hook.f.	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Breynia fruticosa Hook.f.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998)
Breyuia fruticosa (L.) Hook. f.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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