Plant Details

Accepted name:: Hoodia gordonii (Masson) Sweet ex Decne. [Apocynaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bitterghaap	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ghaap	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
ghôba	Other	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015)
hoodia	Other	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
hoodia cactus	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013)
hoodia.	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
wilde ghaap	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Stem		Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015)
stem		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
stem	sliced and dried stems	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 14 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Hoodia albispina N.E.Br. in W.H.Harvey & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Cap. 4(1): 900 (1909).
Hoodia bainii Dyer Bot. Mag. 104: t. 6348 (1878).
Hoodia barklyi Dyer J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 15: 252 (1876).
Hoodia burkei N.E.Br. in W.H.Harvey & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Cap. 4(1): 899 (1909).
Hoodia husabensis Nel in A.C.White & B.L.Sloane, Stapelieae, ed. 2, 3: 1069 (1937).
Hoodia langii Oberm. & Letty in A.C.White & B.L.Sloane, Stapelieae, ed. 2, 3: 1067 (1937).
Hoodia longispina Plowes Brit. Cactus Succ. J. 11: 57 (1993).
Hoodia pillansii N.E.Br. in W.H.Harvey & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Cap. 4(1): 898 (1909).
Hoodia rosea Oberm. & Letty Fl. Pl. South Africa 16: t. 615 (1936).
Hoodia whitesloaneana Dinter ex A.C.White & B.Sloane Stapelieae, ed. 2, 3: 1071 (1937), no Latin descr.
Ceropegia gordonii (Masson) Bruyns S. African J. Bot. 112: 420 (2017).
Monothylaceum gordonii (Masson) G.Don Gen. Hist. 4: 116 (1837), not validly publ.
Scytanthus gordonii (Masson) Hook. Hooker's Icon. Pl. 7: t. 625 (1844).
Stapelia gordonii Masson Stapel. Nov.: 24 (1797).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Hoodia albispina N.E.Br.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Hoodia bainii Dyer	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Hoodia barklyi Dyer	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Hoodia burkei N.E.Br.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Hoodia gordonii	Med. Pl. and Extracts Market News Service (Brinkmann et al., 2009) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Red List Med. Pl. of S Africa (Williams et al., 2013)
Hoodia gordonii (Masson) Sweet Ex Decne.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Hoodia gordonii (Masson) Sweet ex Decne	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Hoodia gordonii (Masson) Sweet ex Decne.	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 2 (Schmelzer et al., 2013) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. & Fungi Project (2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Hoodia gordonii (Masson)Sweet ex Decne.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Hoodia gordonii Sweet	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Hoodia husabensis Nel	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Hoodia langii Oberm. & Letty	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Hoodia longispina Plowes	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Hoodia pillansii N.E.Br.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Hoodia rosea Oberm. & Letty	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Hoodia whitesloaneana Dinter ex A.C.White & B.Sloane	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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