Plant Details

Accepted name:: Acalypha indica L. [Euphorbiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aamaabhaaji	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
aarithanunjayar e	Other	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
acalypha indica	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
acalyphae indicae radix	Pharmaceutical	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017)
akar kucing	Other	Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017)
akkiniccalam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akkiniccivam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
akkinicivam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
alcalifa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
anantakacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
anantakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ankuram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
antakam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
antakameni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
antakamenicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
anting-anting	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
arimancari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arishtamanjari	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
aristamanjari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arittamanjarie	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arittamunjari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arittamunjariye	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arittamunjayrie	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
atikamenicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brennkraut	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
cailameni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cailamenicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cakkaraputpacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cakkaraputpam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cakkaraputpi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cakkiraputpi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
canakkimeni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
canakkimenicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ceka mas	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
cekamurukameni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chal maari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chalmari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chika-mas	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
civantirevatacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
civantirevatam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
civappukkantika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
civappukkantikacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
copperleaf	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
copperleaf herb	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
cukatukkam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cukatukkamirantariyumilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cupameni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
curupanati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gifbossie	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
harita-manjari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
harita-manjiri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
haritamanjari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
harithamanjari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
herbe chatte	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
hierba de cancer	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
indian acalypha	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
indian copper leaf	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
indian copperleaf	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
indian nettle	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
indian-nettle	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
indisches kupferblatt	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
inkaracceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
inkaram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
intiraimeni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
intiraimenicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jalamali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kalakalakkiniyanon	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kalakkiniyon	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kariyariyuritton	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katippankicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katippankikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khajoti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khojoti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khokalee	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khokali	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khokla	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khokli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
kholi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kolippu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kolippuntu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kolipputu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kolirpuntu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kolitameni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kolitamenicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
koopamaynie	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kucing-kucingan	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kupamani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kupameni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kupi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kupichettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kupintaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppa-mani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppai meni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppai-meni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppaichettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppaimeni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Siddha Syst. of Med. Pl. for Respiratory Diseases (Ram et al., 2009) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
kuppaman-cheti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppamani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppameni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppameniya	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014)
kuppante chettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppaveni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
kuppi gida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppi-chettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppichettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
kuppigida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppikhokli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppikkentam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppinta or muripindi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppintaaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppivaeni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kupppinta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuppumani	Other	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
kuppunte soppu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kyaung-se-pin	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
kyaung-yo-thay pin	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
kyaung-yo-the	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
machelikoane	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mamjarshejari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mankariyan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
manshinka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
marcalamokini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mayakanni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mayilam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mayilameni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mayilamenicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
menakaivari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
meni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
meniyilaicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muktavarcca	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muktavarchaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
munrilaimeni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
munrilaimenicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muraimacakki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muraimayakki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muraimayakkicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muripinda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muripindi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
murkandachettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
murkondachettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
murukonda-chettu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
murupindi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muvilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naciyari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naciyarimenicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
neeli gida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
oreille de chatte	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
otuvatakki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
payilikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
payilimenicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
payiliyam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
payiravi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
payliyam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
petari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pitari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
poison bush	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
poonai vanangi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
punai vananki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
punaippakai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
punaippakaicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
punaivanankicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
puppante	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
puppanti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
puti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
re dai tie xian cai	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
ricinela	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ricinelle des indes	Other	PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008)
rumput bolong-bolong	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
shendri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tanivalipperumal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tanivalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tanivallicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tekaram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
teruvilalakai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
teruvilalaki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
thfelan	Other	Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
three seeded mercury	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
three-seeded mercury	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
three-seeded-mercury	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
thuppa keere	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tie xian	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
tiripuramerittan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tirumenikantan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tirumeniyalaki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tirumeniyalakicceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
toluritton	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
valakkonnai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
valapparuti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vetakkinikumaram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vicuvakappiyam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vinaivika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vinaivikacceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
කුප්පමේනිය	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaves, Roots, Whole plant		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
Whole plant		Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Leaf		Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
Whole plant		Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
leaves, roots, stalk, flowers	leaf powder	Siddha Syst. of Med. Pl. for Respiratory Diseases (Ram et al., 2009)
leaves		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
leaves, whole plant	fresh plant material, dry plant material	Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014)
root		Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017)
herb		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Whole Plant		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 13 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Acalypha canescens Benth. in N.Wallich, Numer. List: n.° 7785 (1847), nom. nud.
Acalypha caroliniana Blanco Fl. Filip.: 748 (1837), nom. illeg.
Acalypha chinensis Benth. Fl. Hongk.: 303 (1861).
Acalypha ciliata Benth. in N.Wallich, Numer. List: n.° 7779J (1847), nom. nud.
Acalypha cupamenii Dragend. Heilpfl.: 380 (1898).
Acalypha decidua Forssk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 161 (1775).
Acalypha fimbriata Baill. Recueil Observ. Bot. 1: 272 (1861), nom. illeg.
Acalypha somalensis Pax Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 19: 100 (1894).
Acalypha somalium Müll.Arg. Bremen Abh. 7: 27 (1880).
Acalypha spicata Forssk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 161 (1775).
Cupamenis indica (L.) Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 67 (1838).
Ricinocarpus deciduus (Forssk.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 617 (1891).
Ricinocarpus indicus (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 618 (1891).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Acalypha indica	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Acalypha indica L.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Farmakope Herbal Indonesia, 2nd edn (DKRI, 2017) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) Siddha Syst. of Med. Pl. for Respiratory Diseases (Ram et al., 2009) Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Acalypha indica Linn	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
Acalypha indica Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015)
Acalypha indicum	Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993)

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