Plant Details

Accepted name:: Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop [Asparagaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
asparagus fern	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lián lái zhú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
wén zhú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
yún piàn zhú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
云片竹	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
文竹	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
莲莱竹	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
whole shoot system		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 10 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Asparagopsis setacea Kunth Enum. Pl. 5: 82 (1850).
Asparagus plumosus Baker J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 613 (1875).
Asparagus asiaticus var. amharicus Pic.Serm. Miss. Stud. Lago Tana 7(1): 194 (1951).
Asparagus lujae De Wild. Pl. Nov. Horti Then.: t. 34 (1905).
Asparagus plumosus nanus Van Geert Nursery Cat. (Auguste Van Geert) 83: 4 (1882).
Asparagus plumosus var. tenuissimus (Van Geert) L.H.Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort.: 106 (1906).
Asparagus tenuissimus Van Geert Nursery Cat. (Auguste Van Geert) 83: 4 (1882).
Asparagus zanzibaricus Baker J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 614 (1875).
Protasparagus plumosus (Baker) Oberm. S. African J. Bot. 2: 244 (1983).
Protasparagus setaceus (Kunth) Oberm. S. African J. Bot. 2: 244 (1983).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Asparagopsis setacea Kunth	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Asparagus plumosus	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Asparagus plumosus Bak.	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015)
Asparagus plumosus Baker	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Asparagus setaceus	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth) Jessop	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Asparagus setaceus (Kunth.) Jessop	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015)

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