Plant Details

Accepted name:: Rhynchospora colorata (L.) H.Pfeiff. [Cyperaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
creeping root sedge	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
melaran	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
mottenga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
musta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mustu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nirbishi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nirvisha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pimottenga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
poverty grass	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
rumput butang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
rumput teki	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
shwetgothubi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sudu mottu tana	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
swetgothubi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
teki	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
teki rawa	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
udul-udulanalit	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
udulan	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
wudulan	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
සුදු මොට්ටු තණ	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
一箭球	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
flower, leaves, roots		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 16 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cyperus kyllingia Endl. Cat. Horti Vindob. 1: 94 (1842).
Kyllinga monocephala Rottb. Descr. Icon. Rar. Pl.: 13 (1773), nom. superfl.
Schoenus coloratus L. Sp. Pl.: 43 (1753).
Dichroma ciliatum Ham. Prodr. Pl. Ind. Occid.: 15 (1825), nom. superfl.
Dichromena ciliata Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 58 (1805), nom. superfl.
Dichromena colorata (L.) C.L.Hitchc. Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 4: 141 (1893).
Dichromena drummondiana Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 2: 135 (1855).
Dichromena glabra Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 57 (1805).
Dichromena leucocephala Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 37 (1803).
Dichromena persooniana Nees in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 2(1): 112 (1842), nom. superfl.
Kyllinga colorata (L.) Druce Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 1916: 630 (1917).
Rhynchospora leucocephala (Michx.) Boeckeler Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. Kjøbenhavn 1869: 144 (1869).
Rhynchospora persooniana Griseb. Pl. Wright. 2: 536 (1862), nom. superfl.
Rhynchospora stellata (Lam.) Griseb. Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 7: 271 (1857).
Rhynchospora stellata f. intercedens Kük. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 74: 300 (1951).
Schoenus stellatus Lam. Encycl. 1: 741 (1785).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cyperus kyllingia	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Cyperus kyllingia Endl.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. & Pois. Pl. 1 (Padua et al., 1999)
Kyllinga monocephala	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Kyllinga monocephala Rottb.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Rhynchospora colorata (L.) H. Pfeiff.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Rhynchospora colorata (L.) H.Pfeiff.	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Schoenus coloratus Lour.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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