Plant Details

Accepted name:: Amianthium muscitoxicum (Walter) A.Gray [Melanthiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
fly poison	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
flypoison	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 17 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Amianthium macrotox Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 27 (1838).
Anthericum subtrigynum Jacq. Collectanea 3: 273 (1791).
Chrosperma laetum (Aiton) Raf. Neogenyton: 3 (1825).
Chrosperma muscitoxicum (Walter) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 708 (1891).
Chrysosperma muscatoxicum (Walter) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 703 (1891).
Crosperma laeta (Aiton) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 27 (1838).
Crosperma phalangioides (Desr.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 33 (1838).
Endocles laetum (Aiton) Salisb. Gen. Pl.: 51 (1866), not validly publ.
Helonias erythrosperma Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 212 (1803).
Helonias laeta (Aiton) Ker Gawl. Bot. Mag. 21: t. 803 (1805).
Leimanthium laetum (Aiton) Willd. Mag. Neuesten Entdeck. Gesammten Naturk. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 2: 24 (1808).
Leimanthium pallidum Willd. Mag. Neuesten Entdeck. Gesammten Naturk. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 2: 24 (1808).
Melanthium laetum Aiton Hort. Kew. 1: 488 (1789).
Melanthium muscitoxicum Walter Fl. Carol.: 125 (1788).
Melanthium myoctonum J.F.Gmel. Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis].: 587 (1791).
Melanthium phalangioides Desr. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 4: 27 (1797).
Zigadenus muscitoxicum (Walter) Regel Gartenflora 32: 164 (1883).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Amianthium muscitoxicum (Walt.) Gray	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Amianthium muscitoxicum (Walter) A. Gray	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Amianthium muscitoxicum (Walter) A.Gray	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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