Plant Details

Accepted name:: Anthoxanthum nitens (Weber) Y.Schouten & Veldkamp [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
duftmariengras	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
holy grass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
manna grass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
myskgräs	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
seneca grass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sweet grass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
vanilla grass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
茅香	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
茅香根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 50 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Hierochloe odorata (L.) P.Beauv. Ess. Agrostogr., Atlas: t. 12, f. 5 (1812).
Anthoxanthum hirtum (Schrank) Y.Schouten & Veldkamp Blumea 30: 348 (1985).
Anthoxanthum hirtum subsp. arcticum (J.Presl) G.C.Tucker Harvard Pap. Bot. 1(9): 66 (1996).
Anthoxanthum nitens subsp. balticum (G.Weim.) G.C.Tucker Harvard Pap. Bot. 1(9): 66 (1996).
Anthoxanthum nitens subsp. kolymense (Prob.) Röser & Tkach Taxon 69: 264 (2020).
Avena odorata (L.) Koeler Descr. Gramin.: 299 (1802).
Dimesia fragrans (Willd.) Raf. Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 1: 442 (1817).
Hierochloe annulata Petrov Fl. Iakut. 1: 131 (1930), pro syn.
Hierochloe arctica J.Presl in C.B.Presl, Reliq. Haenk. 1: 252 (1830).
Hierochloe baltica (G.Weim.) Czerep. Sosud. Rast. SSSR: 362 (1981).
Hierochloe borealis (Schrad.) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 2: 513 (1817).
Hierochloe borealis var. biflora (Hartm.) Hartm. Handb. Skand. Fl., ed. 2: 23 (1832).
Hierochloe borealis var. firma Hartm. Handb. Skand. Fl., ed. 5: 308 (1849).
Hierochloe borealis var. fragrans (Willd.) Hartm. Handb. Skand. Fl., ed. 4: 28 (1843).
Hierochloe borealis subsp. fragrans (Willd.) C.Hartm. Handb. Skand. Fl., ed. 5: 308 (1849).
Hierochloe borealis var. microstachya Hartm. Handb. Skand. Fl., ed. 5: 308 (1849).
Hierochloe borealis var. microstachya Hartm. Handb. Skand. Fl., ed. 10: 277 (1870).
Hierochloe fragrans (Willd.) Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 2: 514 (1817).
Hierochloe glauca Gliem. ex Bab. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 11: 341 (1870), nom. nud.
Hierochloe hirta (Schrank) Borbás Balaton Tavának Növényföldr.: 315 (1900).
Hierochloe hirta var. annulata (Petrov) Vilyasoo Fl. Estonskoi SSR 11: 267 (1979).
Hierochloe hirta subsp. arctica (J.Presl) G.Weim. Bot. Not. 124: 150 (1971).
Hierochloe hirta subsp. praetermissa G.Weim. Symb. Bot. Upsal. 27: 176 (1987).
Hierochloe nashii (C.Bicknell) Kaczm. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 3: 198 (1914).
Hierochloe odorata var. annulata Petrov Fl. Iakut. 1: 131 (1930).
Hierochloe odorata subsp. arctica (J.Presl) Tzvelev Zlaki SSSR: 349 (1976).
Hierochloe odorata subsp. baltica G.Weim. Bot. Not. 124: 141 (1971).
Hierochloe odorata var. biflora Hartm. Handb. Skand. Fl.: 51 (1820).
Hierochloe odorata var. diffusa Fiek in E.Fiek & R.K.F.von Uechtritz, Fl. Schlesien: 499 (1881).
Hierochloe odorata f. eamesii Fernald Rhodora 19: 152 (1917).
Hierochloe odorata var. firma F.Nyl. Spic. Fl. Fenn. 2: 1 (1844), nom. nud.
Hierochloe odorata var. fragrans (Willd.) Vilyasoo Fl. Estonskoi SSR 11: 263 (1979).
Hierochloe odorata subsp. fragrans (Willd.) Nyman Consp. Fl. Eur.: 790 (1882).
Hierochloe odorata subsp. hirta (Schrank) Tzvelev Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 10: 81 (1973).
Hierochloe odorata subsp. kolymensis Prob. Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 15: 69 (1979).
Hierochloe odorata subsp. praetermissa (G.Weim.) B.Walln. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 108: 257 (2007).
Hierochloe praetermissa (G.Weim.) Prob. & Tzvelev Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 95: 862 (2010).
Hierochloe wrangelica Jurtzev & Prob. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 74: 111 (1989).
Holcus arcticus Sommerf. Mag. Naturvidensl., n.s., 1: 236 (1833).
Holcus borealis Schrad. Fl. Germ.: 252 (1806).
Holcus borealis var. biflorus Hartm. Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 1818: 158 (1818).
Holcus fragrans Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 4: 936 (1806).
Holcus odoratus L. Sp. Pl.: 1048 (1753).
Poa nitens Weber Suppl. Fl. Holsat.: 6 (1787).
Savastana hirta Schrank Baier. Fl. 1: 337 (1789).
Savastana nashii C.Bicknell Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 25: 104 (1898).
Savastana odorata (L.) Scribn. Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 5: 34 (1894).
Savastana odorata var. fragrans (Willd.) Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 21: 350 (1919 publ. 1920).
Torresia nashii (C.Bicknell) House Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 243-244: 58 (1923).
Torresia odorata (L.) Hitchc. Amer. J. Bot. 2: 301 (1915).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Anthoxanthum nitens (Weber) Y. Schouten & Veldkamp	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Anthoxanthum nitens (Weber) Y.Schouten & Veldkamp	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Hierochloe odorata (L.) Beauv. subsp. odorata	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Hierochloe odorata (L.) P. Beauv.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Hierochloe odorata Beauvois	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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