Scientific Name | Common Name | Natively Found | Cultivated Location | Ornamental or Medicinal Uses |
Andrographis paniculata | Creat | Tropical Asia | India (Assam) | Medicinal uses: remedy for jaundice, bittering agent increases appetite |
Asystasia gangetica | Hunters Spinach | Tropical Africa and Asia | Tropical America; Kenya, Tanzania, West Africa | Used medicinally and as a vegatable |
Asystasia schimperi | Climbing Asystasia | Tropical Africa | Tropical Africa | Eaten as a vegetable |
Asystasia vogeliana | N / A | Tropical Africa | Tropcial Africa | Eaten as a vegetable |
Baphicacanthus cusia | N / A | China | South China, Bangladesh and Japan | Used for it's blue dye; also medicinal purposes |
Barleria cristata | Blue Bell, Philippine violet | India to South East Asia | India, South China and South East Asia | Used ornamentally as a hedge as well as medicinally |
Barleria lupulina | Hophead Philippine violet | South East Asia | Indonesia (Java) | An ornamental whose purpose serves as a hedge |
Barleria prionitis | Yellow Barleria | Tropical Africa and Asia | India and South East Asia | Grown as an ornamental for use as a hedga; also used medicinally |
Barleria strigosa | N / A | India , Pakistan, Bangladesh | India | Used medicinally in India for it's congestion clearing properties |
Blechum pyramidatum | Blackweed | Sornia (central America) | Cuba; Costa Rica, Panama | Medicinal plant |
Brillantaisia patula | YORUBA owo(Nigeria) | Topical West Africa | Africa (Gabon) | Used as a "magic" plant |
Clinacanthus nutans | N / A | South China, South East Asia | Indonesia (Java) Maylaysia (Malacca) | Used as a hedge plant, as well as medicinally |
Crossandra infundibuliformis | Firecracker-flower | Pakistan, India, South East Asia | Northern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh | Medicinal uses |
Dicliptera laevigata | N / A | Indonesia | Indonesia | Eaten as a vegatable; the sap is used medicinally as an aide against dysentery |
Dicliptera papuana | N / A | Papua New Guinea (Em) | Papua New Guinea | Eaten as a vagatable with pork; reproduced via cuttings |
Hemigraphis alternata | Red Flame Ivy | Malaysia, Indonesia | Java, SE Asia, Latin America | Used medicinally in Java; ornamental in SE Asia and Latin America |
Hygrophila auriculata | Elephant’s Thorn | Tropical Africa, India, Sri Lanka | Tropical West Africa | Grown in water marshes as a vegetable and dried for obtaining table salt |
Justicia adhatoda | Cow’s Knee | India, Sri Lanka, S China, SE Asia | India, Pakistan, SE Asia, Cuba | Used to vegetativley restore polluted soils; ornamental, insecticide, yellow dye, medicinal uses |
Justicia flava | KISSI yogbo (Guinea) | Topical Africa | Papua New Guinea | Eaten as a vegetable |
Justicia gendarussa | Cow’s Knee * | India, South East Asia | India, Maylaysia (Malacca), Philippines | Used as a fever remedy as well as for rheumatism. "magic plant" in SE asia |
Justicia insularis | Ibugo(Nigeria) | Tropical Africa | Tropical West Africa | Eaten as a leafy vegetable |
Justicia neotinctoria | N / A | Central America | Central America | Leaves boiled, solution extracted and used as a laundry detergent |
Justicia pectoralis | Death-angel | Mexico, N S. America, Caribbean | Brazil, Colombia, Cuba; Amazonian areas | Ornamental; a stimulant drug |
Justicia spicigera | Yaxan(Spanish) | Mexico | Mexico (Puebla) and Costa Rica | Ornamental; also a dye and medicinal plant |
Pachystachys coccinea | Cardinal's guard | Northern South America | Indonesia (Java) | A common ornamental, used as a hedge |
Peristrophe bivalvis | N / A | India, Sri Lanka, South East Asia | India, Philippines, South East Atlantic Islands | An orange dye is extracted from ground-up stems |
Peristrophe japonica | N / A | India, Sri Lanka, South East Asia | China | Used medicinally |
Peristrophe paniculata | Flower of the Horse | Topical Africa and India to SE Asia | South India | Used for horse feed |
Phlogacanthus curviflorus | N / A | South East Asia | Thailand | Dark blue dye extracted from leaves through fermentation process |
Phlogacanthus jenkinsii | N / A | India to Berma | India (Assam) | Medical use, it's ornamental use is as a hedge |
Pseuderanthemum racemosum | N / A | South East Asia | Indonesia (Moluccas) | A common ornamental; leaves consumed as a vegetable |
Rhinacanthus nasutus | N / A | E Africa, SE Asia, India, Sri Lanka | Indonesia (Java) | Local remedy for skin disorders; used to prevent mass wasting |
Rungia klossii | N / A | Papua New Guinea, Indonesia | Papua New Guinea | Ornamental use as well as cooking; is prepared together with leaves of Setaria palmifolia |
Staurogyne elongata | N / A | South East Asia | Indonesia (Java) | The leaves are consumed cooked or uncooked; also used for medicinal purposes |
Teliostachya lanceolata | N / A | Colombia and Ecuador | East Ecuador | From the leaves, a drug is obtained for solving stomach problems |
Thunbergia alata | Black-eyed Susan | East Africa | Mexico (Puebla) | Is a common ornamental throughout the tropics; used medicinally in Mexico |
Thunbergia erecta | Bush Clock Vine | Tropical West Africa | Indonesia (Java); Asia, Africa and Central America | Hedge plant in Java; Common ornamental plant in other localities |
Thunbergia lacei | Blue Trumpet Vine | South East Asia | China (Xishuangbanna) | Where cultivated, common in gardens and for medical use |
