Plant Details

Accepted name:: Bambusa tuldoides Munro [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bamboo	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
bamboo shavings	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
bambu blenduk	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bambusae caulis in taenia	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
bambusae caulis in taenias	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
buloh balai	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
caulis bambusae in taenia	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
caulis bambusae in taeniis	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
jhu ru	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
nyuk tsi	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
puntingpole bamboo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
qing gan zhu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
smyug rtsi	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
verdant bamboo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
zhu ru	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
zhuru	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
སྨྱུག་རྩི།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
仙人杖	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
朱砂	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
淡竹壳	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
淡竹根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
淡竹笋	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
竹卷心	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
竹叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
竹沥	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
竹茹	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
青稈竹	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
stem	dried middle shavings of stem	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
stem	dried middle shavings of stem	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
middle shavings of culm	dried middle shavings of culm	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
stem	dried middle shavings of stem	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 20 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Bambusa breviflora Munro Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 96 (1868).
Arundarbor angulata (Munro) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 761 (1891).
Arundarbor breviflora (Munro) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 760 (1891).
Arundarbor brevifolia Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 760 (1891), orth. var.
Arundarbor tuldoides (Munro) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 761 (1891).
Bambusa angulata Munro Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 94 (1868).
Bambusa blumeana Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy.: 254 (1838), nom. illeg.
Bambusa breviflora var. hainanensis G.A.Fu Acta Phytotax. Sin. 20: 491 (1982).
Bambusa fauriei Hack. Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 4: 529 (1904).
Bambusa flavonoda W.T.Lin Bamboo Res. 1986(2): 23 (1986).
Bambusa longiflora W.T.Lin Bull. Bot. Lab. N. E. Forest. Inst., Harbin 1980(6): 85 (1980).
Bambusa pallescens (Döll) Hack. Allg. Bot. Z. Syst. 14: 160 (1908).
Bambusa parvifolia W.T.Lin Bamboo Res. 1986(2): 22 (1986).
Bambusa tulda Benth. Fl. Hongk.: 434 (1861), nom. illeg.
Chimonobambusa angulata (Munro) T.Q.Nguyen Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 76: 880 (1991).
Guadua pallescens Döll in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 2(3): 186 (1880).
Leleba breviflora (Munro) Nakai J. Jap. Bot. 9: 16 (1933).
Leleba faurei (Hack.) Nakai J. Jap. Bot. 9: 16 (1933).
Leleba tuldoides (Munro) Nakai J. Jap. Bot. 9: 17 (1933).
Tetragonocalamus angulatus (Munro) Nakai J. Jap. Bot. 9: 86, 89 (1933).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Bambusa breviflora	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Bambusa breviflora Munro	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Bambusa tuldoides Munro	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023) 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)
Bambusa tuldoides Munro.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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