Plant Details

Accepted name:: Spiranthes sinensis (Pers.) Ames [Orchidaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
lóng bào zhù	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pán lóng cān	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
shoucao	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
shòu cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
yī xiàn xiāng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
zhū biān huā	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
一线香	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
猪鞭花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
盘龙参	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
绶草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
龙抱柱	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Whole plant, Root		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
whole plant, root		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 21 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Neottia sinensis Pers. Syn. Pl. 2: 511 (1807).
Aristotelea spiralis Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 522 (1790).
Epidendrum aristotelea Raeusch. Nomencl. Bot. Pl. Illustr., ed. 3: 265 (1797), nom. superfl.
Gyrostachys australis var. sinensis (Pers.) Blume Fl. Javae Nov. Ser.: 108 (1859).
Ibidium spirale (Lour.) Makino J. Jap. Bot. 6: 37 (1929).
Neottia australis var. chinensis Lindl. Bot. Reg. 7: t. 602 (1822).
Neottia pudica (Lindl.) Sweet Hort. Brit.: 383 (1827).
Spiranthes aristotelea Merr. Philipp. J. Sci. 15: 230 (1919), nom. superfl.
Spiranthes australis var. pudica (Lindl.) F.Muell. Fragm. 10: 65 (1876).
Spiranthes australis var. sinensis (Pers.) Gagnep. in H.Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 6: 546 (1933), nom. superfl.
Spiranthes australis var. suishaensis Hayata Icon. Pl. Formosan. 6: 86 (1916).
Spiranthes indica Lindl. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 625 (1841), not validly publ.
Spiranthes lancea var. chinensis (Lindl.) Hatus. J. Geobot. 16: 80 (1968).
Spiranthes neocaledonica Schltr. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 39: 51 (1906).
Spiranthes papuana Schltr. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1: 46 (1911).
Spiranthes pitouchaoensis S.S.Ying New Taxa New Names 3: 19 (2022).
Spiranthes pudica Lindl. Coll. Bot.: t. 30 (1821).
Spiranthes sinensis f. autumnus Tsukaya J. Pl. Res. 118: 17 (2005).
Spiranthes sinensis f. gracilis F.Maek. ex Tsukaya J. Pl. Res. 118: 18 (2005), no type indicated.
Spiranthes spiralis (Lour.) Makino J. Jap. Bot. 3: 25 (1926), nom. illeg.
Spiranthes suishaensis (Hayata) Schltr. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 4: 161 (1919).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Neottia sinensis Pers.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Spiranthes sinensis	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Spiranthes sinensis (Pers.) Ames	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Medicinal Orchids of Asia (Teoh, 2016) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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