Plant Details

Accepted name:: Saussurea obvallata (DC.) Sch.Bip. [Asteraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bao ye xue lian	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bract-leaf saussurea	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
braham kamal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brahm kamal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brahm kawal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brahma kamala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brahma-kamal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brrhm kamal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gza' dug nag po	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
phenkamal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
saussurea obvallata	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
za duk nak po	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
གཟའ་དུག་ནག་པོ།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 4 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Saussurea obvallata var. orientalis Diels Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 623 (1901).
Aplotaxis obvallata DC. Prodr. 6: 541 (1838).
Carduus tectus Wall. Numer. List: n.° 2906 (1831), not validly publ.
Theodorea obvallata (DC.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 368 (1891).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Saussurea obvallata (DC.) Edgew.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Saussurea obvallata (DC.) Edgew. var. orientalis Diels	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Saussurea obvallata (DC.) Sch. Bip.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Saussurea obvallata (DC.) Sch.Bip.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Saussurea obvallata (Dc.) Edgew.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Saussurea obvallata Wall.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Saussurea obvallata Wallich	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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