Plant Details

Accepted name:: Cryptocoryne spiralis (Retz.) Fisch. ex Wydler [Araceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 4

Cryptocoryne spiralis var. caudigera Bogner

Cryptocoryne spiralis var. cognatoides (Blatt. & McCann) S.R.Yadav, K.S.Patil & Bogner

Cryptocoryne spiralis var. huegelii (Schott) Bogner

Cryptocoryne spiralis var. spiralis

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
indian ipecacuanha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaadu athibaje	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nattathivasa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
natti-ati-vasa	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
neerina peepi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Root		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Ambrosina spirialis (Retz.) Roxb. Hort. Bengal.: 65 (1814).
Arum spirale Retz. Observ. Bot. 1: 30 (1779).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cryptocoryne spiralis	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Cryptocoryne spiralis (Retz.) Fisch. ex Wydler	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Cryptocoryne spiralis (Retz.) Wydler	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Cryptocoryne spiralis Fischer	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

The following online resources may contain further information about this plant. Please click on any link to search that resource. You may search using the accepted name alone OR using the accepted name and all of its synonyms simultaneously.

Search using just the accepted name

NCBI — (Including Pubmed & GenBank)

— Europe PubMed Central

Google Images

Google Scholar

Encyclopedia of Life

Search using all scientific names used for this plant:

NCBI — (Including Pubmed & GenBank)

— Europe PubMed Central

Google Images