Holarrhena pubescens

Holarrhena pubescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is native to central and southern Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, and parts of China. It is a wonderful medicine for dysentery and used in Homeopathy for the disease in tincture form. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] In Cambodia, it is called /tɨk dɑh kʰlaː thɔm/ ទឹកដោះខ្លាធំ big tiger milk or /kʰlaɛɲ kŭəŋ/ ខ្លែងគង់ invulnerable kite.[8]

Holarrhena pubescens
Holarrhena pubescens flowers & leaves
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Holarrhena
Species:
H. pubescens
Binomial name
Holarrhena pubescens
Wall. ex G.Don 1837
Synonyms[1]
  • Echites pubescens Buch.-Ham. 1822, illegitimate homonym, not Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. 1819
  • Chonemorpha pubescens (Wall.) G.Don
  • Elytropus pubescens (Wall.) Miers
  • Echites adglutinatus Burm.f.
  • Echites antidysentericus Roth 1819, illegitimate homonym, not (L.) Roxb. ex Fleming 1810
  • Holarrhena antidysenterica Wall. 1829, invalid name published without description, also illegitimate homonym, not (L.) Wall. 1829
  • Holarrhena codaga G.Don
  • Holarrhena villosa Aiton ex Loudon
  • Holarrhena malaccensis Wight
  • Physetobasis macrocarpa Hassk.
  • Holarrhena febrifuga Klotzsch
  • Holarrhena glabra Klotzsch
  • Holarrhena tettensis Klotzsch
  • Holarrhena macrocarpa (Hassk.) Fern.-Vill.
  • Holarrhena fischeri K.Schum.
  • Holarrhena perrotii Spire
  • Holarrhena pierrei Spire
  • Nerium sinense W.Hunter
  • Holarrhena glaberrima Markgr.

References
  1. "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  2. "Holarrhena pubescens in Flora of China". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  3. Calane da Silva, M., Izdine, S. & Amuse, A.B. (2004). A Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Mozambique: 1-184. SABONET, Pretoria.
  4. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mt. Mulanje, Malawi. Scripta Botanica Belgica 34: 1-199.
  5. Middleton, D.J. (2007). Apocynaceae (subfamilies Rauvolfioideae and Apocynoideae). Flora Malesiana 18: 1-474. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta.
  6. Timberlake, J.R., Bayliss, J., Alves, T., Francisco, J., Harris, T., Nangoma, D. & de Sousa, C. (2009). Biodiversity and Conservation of Mchese Mountain, Malawi. Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036: 1-71. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  7. Middleton, D.J. (2011). Flora of peninsular Malaysia , II, 2: 1-235. Institut Penyelidikan Perhutanan Malaysia.
  8. LETI, Mathieu, HUL Sovanmoly, Jean-Gabriel FOUCHÉ, CHENG Sun Kaing, Bruno DAVID, Flore photographique du Cambodge, Paris: Privat, 2013, p. 81.
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