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Common Names: in China : si xu ju ruo shu in India : colbera, tagoon in Indonesia: beting Malay name: keladi murai Scientific Names (Synonyms): Ataccia aspera (Roxb.) Kunth Ataccia cristata (Jack) Kunth Ataccia integrifolia (Ker Gawl.) C.Presl Ataccia laevis (Roxb.) Kunth Ataccia lancifolia (Zoll. & Moritzi) Kunth Tacca aspera Roxb. Tacca choudhuriana Deb Tacca cristata Jack Tacca laevis Roxb. Tacca lancifolia Zoll. & Moritzi Tacca sumatrana H.Limpr. Floral Description: According to Flora of China: Rhizomes subcylindric, thick. Leaf blade oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 50--55 × 18.5--21 cm, base cuneate, apex acuminate, sometimes caudate. Scape ca. 55 cm; involucral bracts 4, outer 2 sessile, narrowly deltoid-ovate, inner 2 long petiolate, spatulate, thin. Perianth purplish black; tube 1--2 cm; lobes 6, in 2 whorls, outer ones narrowly oblong, inner ones broadly obovate. Filaments spatula

Calotropis procera Common Names: in English: apple of Sodom, cotton leaf, Dead Sea apple, Dead Sea fruit, English cotton, French cotton, giant milkweed, milkweed, mudar plant, Sodom apple, swallow wort in Arabic : achur, ashkar, baranbakh, eshar, esshero, kerenka, koruga, korunka, krenka, ngeyi, ochar, ‘oshar, oshar, oshur, rhalga, torcha, tourza, turdja, turja, turje, usher in China: bai hua niu jiao gua in India : aak, aakdo, aakra, aakro, adityapushpika, ag, ak, akada phool, akado, akan, akand, akanda, akaro, akaua, akauvya, akda cha jhada, akda nu jhada, akdo, akh, akha, akhra, akond, akondo, akra, alarka, alarkah, angot, ankado, ankda, ankota, arakh, arakha, arka, arka vrikshaha, arkah, arkaparna, arkavrikshaha, asphota, aush shar, aushar, bhanu, bili aekka, bili aekkada gida, bili yekkada gida, bimbora, dirghpushpa, dudla, erikku, erra jilledu, erukka, erukkam, erukku, ganarupaka, jilledu, jilledu-chettu, kashthila, kempu akkadagida, kempu ekk

Calotropis gigantea Common Names: in English : asclepiad tree, bowstring-hemp, crown flower, crown plant, giant Indian milkweed, giant milkweed, giant milky weed, gigantic swallow wort, madar, madar flower, milkweed, mudar in East Africa : mpumbula in China : niu jiao gua in India : aak, aakdo, aank, aarka, ab shir madar, aditya, aekka, aekka maale, aekki gida, ag, aharbandhava, aharmani, aharpati, ahauna, ahgaram, ak, aka, akado, akan, akanak, akanda, akaona, akarai, akari, akahua, akda, akda cha jhada, akda nu jhada, akdachajhada, akdamu-jhada, akdo, ake, akh, akh ke phool, akom, akom aring, akon, akona, akond, akond mul, akondo, akra, akro, akuan, alacikacceti, alacikam, alagar, alakam, alal, alark, alarka, alarkah, alarpal, amarkkam, ancolam, angkot, ank, arak arak mara, arakh, arakha, arakho gatch, arakkam, arakkanceti, arakkaparani, ariccunam, ark, arka, arka-gida, arka vrikshaha, arkagatch, arkah (= sun), arkamu, arkavrikshaha, arkkam, arkku, arkopat

Acalypha fruticosa Forssk. Common Names: in Arabic: anama in Kenya : etetelait in Tanzania: gonasokola, mchacha, mfulwe, mhacha, mkima-dimbya, mnukovunda, ndyavadimi, nyautitili, shaiti, simamarete in India: chinee mara, chinnaaku, chinni, chinni chedi, chinni gida, chinni mara, chinnimara, cinnakkilanku, cinnaku, cinni, cinnicceti, cinnikkilanku, cinnimar, cinniver, ciri, cirucinni, cirumanikacceti, italai, kacci, kalam, kannikkilanku, kantali, kantalikam, katalikam, katalikamaram, kilamacunacceti, kilimacunam, kilanku cinni, kitikkilanku, kitti, kittik-kilanku, kittik-kizhang, kittikkilanku, kupokacinni, kupokam, mabbaku, malaisiruthutthi, munja, nanti, nantiracinni, nantivirutcam, nariccinni, nariccinnicceti, perim-munja, perun cinni, siru sinni, tsinnie Scientific name:(Synonyms) Acalypha betulina Retz. Acalypha fruticosa var. villosa Hutch. Acalypha fruticosa var. fruticosa Acalypha paxiana Dinter ex Pax & K.Hoffm. Ricinocarpus fru