FAMILY: Haloragaceae

BOTANICAL NAME: Haloragis erecta

MĀORI NAME: toatoa

COMMON NAME: shrubby haloragis

MEDICINAL: Infusion of leaves or expressed juice used for all scrofulous diseases (Taylor 1870). The related plant Gunnera perpensa has been used in Africa for psoriasis (Watt and Breyer-Brandwijk, in Brooker, Cambie and Cooper 1987) See also Riley 1994 for information on medicinal uses of related plants elsewhere in the world.

CHEMISTRY: Contains tannin (Smith 1879)