Plant Details

Accepted name:: Cymbopogon distans (Nees ex Steud.) Will.Watson [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
cymbopogonis herba	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
云香草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
芸香草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Andropogon distans Nees ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 387 (1854).
Andropogon nardus var. distans (Nees ex Steud.) Hack. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 6: 608 (1889).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Andropogon distans Nees ex Steud.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Cymbopogon digitans Camus	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Cymbopogon distans (Nees ex Steud.) W. Wats	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Cymbopogon distans (Nees ex Steud.) W.Wats	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Cymbopogon distans (Nees ex Steud.) W.Watson	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Cymbopogon distans (Nees ex Steud.) Will.Watson	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Cymbopogon distans (Nees) A. Camus	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Cymbopogon distans A.Camus	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
Cymbopogon distans Camus	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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