Plant Details

Accepted name:: Bolboschoenus fluviatilis (Torr.) Soják [Cyperaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bolboschoenus fluviatile	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
river bulrush	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
scirpe fluviatile	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
scirpi rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
荆三棱	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
tuber		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 5 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Scirpus fluviatilis (Torr.) A.Gray Manual, ed. 2: 500 (1856).
Bolboschoenus maritimus subsp. fluviatilis (Torr.) Á.Löve & D.Löve Taxon 30: 845 (1981).
Schoenoplectus fluviatilis (Torr.) M.T.Strong Novon 3: 203 (1993).
Scirpus maritimus var. fluviatilis Torr. Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 3: 325 (1836).
Scirpus perviridis V.J.Cook Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 76: 570 (1947).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis (Torr.) Sojak	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Bolboschoenus fluviatilis (Torr.) Soják	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Scirpus flaviatilis A.Gray	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
Scirpus fluviatilis (Torr.) A. Gray	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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