Plant Details

Accepted name:: Oplopanax elatus (Nakai) Nakai [Araliaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ci shen	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
japanese devil's club	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
japanese devil's-club	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
刺人参	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Echinopanax elatus Nakai J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 26(1): 276 (1909).
Oplopanax horridus subsp. elatus (Nakai) H.Hara J. Jap. Bot. 30: 71 (1955).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Echinopanax elatum Nakai	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Echinopanax elatus Nakai	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Oplopanax elatus (Nakai) Nakai	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Oplopanax elatus Nakai	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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