Plant Details

Accepted name:: Typha latifolia L. [Typhaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bredkaveldun	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
breitblättriger rohrkolben	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
broadleaf cattail	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
bulrush	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
cat's tail	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
cat-tail bullrush	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
cattail	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
common cattail	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
cooper's-reed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cossack asparagus	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
dza-dza	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
espadaña	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
espadaña común	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
giant reed-mace	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
great cattail	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ibhuma	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ingcongolo	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
matjiesgoed	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
motsitla	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mubungwe	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
otjikomite	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
palmiet	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
papkuil	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
piriope	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
poker	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
reedmace	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
roseau des étangs	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
soft-flag	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tabua-larga	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
totora	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
tsita	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
tule espidilla	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
umkhanzi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
zaza	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
蒲黄	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaf, Rhizome		Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 34 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Massula latifolia (L.) Dulac Fl. Hautes-Pyrénées: 47 (1867).
Typha ambigua Schur ex Rohrb. Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 11: 76 (1869).
Typha angustifolia proles brownii Kronf. Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 39: 154 (1889).
Typha angustifolia var. elata (Boreau) Nyman Consp. Fl. Eur.: 757 (1882).
Typha angustifolia var. media Kronf. Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 39: 152 (1889).
Typha angustifolia lusus uechtritzii Kronf. Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 39: 153 (1889).
Typha crassa Raf. Atlantic J. 1: 148 (1832).
Typha elata Boreau Fl. Centre France, ed. 3, 2: 733 (1857).
Typha elatior Boreau Arch. Bot. (Paris) 2: 399 (1833), nom. illeg.
Typha elatior Raf. Atlantic J. 1: 148 (1832), nom. illeg.
Typha elongata (Dudley) Dudley Cayuga Fl.: 102 (1889), nom. illeg.
Typha elongata Pauquy Stat. Bot.: 423 (1834).
Typha engelmannii A.Br. ex Rohrb. Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 11: 76 (1869).
Typha intermedia Schur Verh. Mitth. Siebenbürg. Vereins Naturwiss. Hermannstadt 2: 206 (1851).
Typha latifolia var. ambigua Sond. Fl. Hamburg.: 508 (1850).
Typha latifolia f. ambigua (Sond.) Holmb. Skand. Fl. 1: 70 (1922).
Typha latifolia var. angustifolia Hausskn. in P.E.E.Sintenis, It. Or.: 3566 (1890).
Typha latifolia f. didyma Brenner Meddeland. Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 37: 37 (1911).
Typha latifolia f. divisa Louis-Marie Rev. Oka Agron. Inst. Agric. 34: 5 (1960).
Typha latifolia var. elata Kronf. Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 37: 15 (1887).
Typha latifolia var. elatior Graebn. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 8: 9 (1900).
Typha latifolia var. elongata Dudley Cornell Univ. Sci. Bull. 2: 102 (1886).
Typha latifolia subsp. eulatifolia Graebn. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 8: 9 (1900), not validly publ.
Typha latifolia var. gracilis Godr. Fl. Lorraine 2: 19 (1843).
Typha latifolia f. intermedia Lindstr. Bot. Not. 1893: 20 (1893).
Typha latifolia var. obconica Tkachik Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 78(2): 87 (1993).
Typha latifolia var. remotiuscula (Schur) Simonk. Enum. Fl. Transsilv.: 514 (1887).
Typha latifolia var. typica Rothm. Brotéria, Ci. Nat. 9: 5 (1940).
Typha major Curtis Fl. Londin. 3: t. 61 (1780).
Typha media Pollini Fl. Veron. 3: 100 (1824), nom. illeg.
Typha palustris Bubani Fl. Pyren. 4: 25 (1902), nom. superfl.
Typha pendula Fisch. ex Sond. Fl. Hamburg.: 508 (1850).
Typha remotiuscula Schur Enum. Pl. Transsilv.: 637 (1866).
Typha spathulifolia Kronf. Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 37: 15 (1887).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Typha latifolia	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Typha latifolia L	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Typha latifolia L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) 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) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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