Biophytum Explained

Biophytum is a genus of about 50 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the family Oxalidaceae. It is found in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide.^[1] The annual Biophytum sensitivum is a traditional medicine in Nepal. Biophytum petersianum (also known as Biophytum umbraculum) is a medicinal plant in Mali.

Species include:

• Biophytum abyssinicum – Steud ex A.Rich.
• Biophytum adiantoides – Wight ex Edgew. & Hook.f.
• Biophytum aeschynomenifolia – Guillaumin
• Biophytum albiflorum – F.Muell.
• Biophytum albizzioides – Guillaumin
• Biophytum amazonicum – R.Knuth
• Biophytum antioquiense – Knuth
• Biophytum apodiscias – Edgew. & Hook.f.
• Biophytum bequaertii – De Wild.
• Biophytum bogoroense – De Wild.
• Biophytum bolivianum – R.Knuth
• Biophytum boussingaultii – Klotzsch ex R.Knuth
• Biophytum calophyllum – Guillaumin
• Biophytum candolleanum – Wight
• Biophytum cardonaei – Pittier
• Biophytum casiquiarense – Knuth
• Biophytum castum – R.Knuth
• Biophytum chocoense – Knuth
• Biophytum columbianum – Knuth
• Biophytum commersonii – Guillaumin
• Biophytum congestiflorum – Govind.
• Biophytum cowanii – T.Wendt
• Biophytum crassipes – Engl.
• Biophytum cumingianum – Edgew. & Hook.f.
• Biophytum cumingii – Klotzsch
• Biophytum dendroides – DC.
• Biophytum dormiens – Knuth
• Biophytum dusenii – Engl. ex R.Knuth
• Biophytum esquirolii – H.Lév.
• Biophytum falcifolium – Lourteig
• Biophytum ferrugineum – Rusby
• Biophytum forsythii – R.Knuth
• Biophytum foxii – Sprague
• Biophytum fruticosum – Blume
  • Biophytum fruticosum var. papuanum – Veldkamp
• Biophytum globuliflorum – R.Knuth
• Biophytum gracile – R.Knuth
• Biophytum heinrichsae – R.Knuth
• Biophytum helenae – Buscal. & Muschl.
• Biophytum hermanni – Veldkamp
• Biophytum hildebrandtii – Guillaumin
• Biophytum homblei – De Wild.
• Biophytum huilense – Killip & Cuatrec.
• Biophytum incrassatum – Delhaye
• Biophytum insigne – Gamble
• Biophytum intermedium – Wight
• Biophytum jessenii – Knuth
• Biophytum juninense – R.Knuth
• Biophytum kaessneri – R.Knuth
• Biophytum kamerunense – Engl. & R.Knuth ex Engl.
• Biophytum kayae – Aymard & P.E.Berry
• Biophytum lindsaeifolium – Knuth
• Biophytum longibracteatum – Tadulingam & Cheriyan Jacob
• Biophytum longipedunculatum – Govind.
• Biophytum lourteigiae – Aymard & P.E.Berry
• Biophytum luetzelburgii – Suess.
• Biophytum macrorrhizum – R.E.Fr.
• Biophytum madurense – R.Knuth
• Biophytum mapirense – R.Knuth
• Biophytum microphyllum – Veldkamp
• Biophytum mimosoides – (A.St.-Hil.) Guillaumin
• Biophytum molle – Guillaumin
• Biophytum mucronatum – Lourteig
• Biophytum mutisii – R.Knuth
• Biophytum myriophyllum – R.Knuth
• Biophytum nervifolium – Thwaites
• Biophytum nudum – Edgew. & Hook.f.
• Biophytum nyikense – Exell
• Biophytum ottohuberi – Aymard & P.E.Berry
• Biophytum panamense – Lourteig
• Biophytum passargei – Knuth
• Biophytum pedicellatum – Delhaye
• Biophytum permultijugum – Suess.
• Biophytum perrieri – Guillaumin
• Biophytum peruvianum – R.Knuth
• Biophytum petersianum – Klotzsch
• Biophytum polyphyllum – Munro
• Biophytum poterioides – Edgew. ex Hook.f.
• Biophytum proliferum – Edgew. & Hook.f.
• Biophytum renifolium – Delhaye.
• Biophytum reinwardtii- kerala india
• Biophytum richardsae – Exell
• Biophytum ringoetii – De Wild.
• Biophytum rotundifolium – Delhaye
• Biophytum santanderense – R.Knuth
• Biophytum sensitivum – (L.) DC.
• Biophytum sesbanioides – Edgew. ex Hook.f.
• Biophytum sessile – Wall.
• Biophytum somnians – G.Don
• Biophytum soukupii – Lourteig
• Biophytum talbotii – R.Knuth
• Biophytum tessmannii – R.Knuth
• Biophytum thorelianum – Guillaumin
• Biophytum turianiense – Kabuye
• Biophytum umbraculum – Welw.
• Biophytum uzungwaensis – Frim.-Moll.
• Biophytum veldkampii – A.E.S.Khan, E.S.S.Kumar, S.Binu & Pushp.
• Biophytum verticillatum – Wight
• Biophytum zenkeri – Guillaumin
• Biophytum zunigae – C.Nelson

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2. Biophytum Candolle . Flora of China .