Plant Details

Accepted name:: Goodyera repens (L.) R.Br. [Orchidaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
lesser rattlesnake plantain	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
斑叶兰	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 26 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Satyrium repens L. Sp. Pl.: 945 (1753).
Elasmatium repens (L.) Dulac Fl. Hautes-Pyrénées: 121 (1867).
Epipactis chinensis (Schltr.) Hu Rhodora 27: 106 (1925).
Epipactis mairei (Schltr.) Hu Rhodora 27: 106 (1925), nom. illeg.
Epipactis repens (L.) Crantz Stirp. Austr. Fasc., ed. 2, 2: 473 (1769).
Epipactis repens var. ophioides (Fernald) A.A.Eaton Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 21: 65 (1908).
Gonogona repens (L.) Link Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 369 (1822).
Goodyera brevis Schltr. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 12: 345 (1922).
Goodyera chinensis Schltr. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 4: 59 (1919).
Goodyera mairei Schltr. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 65 (1921).
Goodyera ophioides (Fernald) Rydb. Brittonia 1: 86 (1931).
Goodyera pubescens var. repens (L.) Alph.Wood Class-book Bot., ed. 2a: 537 (1847).
Goodyera repens var. japonica Nakai Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus. Tokyo 33: 30 (1953).
Goodyera repens var. ophioides Fernald Rhodora 1: 6 (1899).
Goodyera repens f. ophioides (Fernald) P.M.Br. N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 1: 14 (1995).
Goodyera repens subsp. ophioides (Fernald) Á.Löve & W.Simon S. W. Naturalist 13: 341 (1968).
Neottia repens (L.) Sw. Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 21: 226 (1800).
Orchiodes repens (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 675 (1891).
Orchiodes resupinatum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 675 (1891).
Orchis repens (L.) Eyster ex Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 6: 581 (1805).
Peramium repens (L.) Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 301 (1812).
Peramium repens var. ophioides (Fernald) A.Heller Cat. N. Amer. Pl., ed. 2: 4 (1900).
Peramium secundum (Raf.) House Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 254: 248 (1924).
Satyrium hirsutum Gilib. Exerc. Phyt. 2: 484 (1792), opus utique oppr.
Serapias repens (L.) Vill. Hist. Pl. Dauphiné 2: 53 (1787).
Tussaca secunda Raf. Précis Découv. Somiol.: 43 (1814).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Goodyera repens (L) R.Br.	Medicinal Orchids of Asia (Teoh, 2016)
Goodyera repens (L.) R. Br.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Goodyera repens (L.) R. Br. ex Ait. f.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Goodyera repens (L.) R.Br.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Satyrium repens L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
goodyera repens (L.) R. Br.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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