Plant Details

Accepted name:: Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw. [Asparagaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ingi sopo	Other	Med. Pl. Trade in Suriname (van Andel et al., 2007)
mauritius hemp	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
paruki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
parukikkarralai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
peruntalai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pita	Other	Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitãoa et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaves		Med. Pl. Trade in Suriname (van Andel et al., 2007)

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

Furcraea commelyni (Salm-Dyck) Kunth Enum. Pl. 5: 842 (1850).
Furcraea gigantea Vent. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1: 65 (1793).
Agave bulbosa W.Bull Nursery Cat. (William Bull) 60: 3 (1871).
Agave commelyni Salm-Dyck Hort. Dyck.: 301 (1834).
Agave foetida L. Sp. Pl.: 323 (1753).
Agave gigantea (Vent.) D.Dietr. Syn. Plant. 2: 1192 (1840).
Agave madagascariensis (Haw.) Salm-Dyck Index Pl. Succ. Hort. Dyck.: 1 (1822).
Aloe foetida (L.) Crantz Inst. Rei Herb. 1: 466 (1766).
Fourcroya gigantea (Vent.) Hook. Bot. Mag. 86: t. 5163 (1860).
Funium piliferum Willemet Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 18: 26 (1798).
Furcraea atroviridis Jacobi & Goeff. Vers. Syst. Ord. Agav.: 273 (1871).
Furcraea barillettii Jacobi Abh. Schles. Ges. Vaterl. Cult., Abth. Naturwiss. 1869: 166 (1869).
Furcraea gigantea var. mediopicta Trel. in L.H.Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 3: 1306 (1915).
Furcraea madagascariensis Haw. Suppl. Pl. Succ.: 42 (1819).
Furcraea viridis Hemsl. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 3: 353 (1884).
Furcraea watsoniana Sander Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 23: 242 (1898).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Furcrae gigantea	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Furcraea commelyni Kunth	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Furcraea foetida	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw	Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitãoa et al., 2014)
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Trade in Suriname (van Andel et al., 2007) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Furcraea foetida (L.)Haw.	Comm. Med. Pl. Harvesting, Suriname (van Andel & Havinga, 2008)
Furcraea gigantea	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Furcraea gigantea Vent.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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