Plant Details

Accepted name:: Echinochloa crus-pavonis (Kunth) Schult. [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
gulf cockspur grass	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 24 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Echinochloa crus-pavonis var. macera (Wiegand) Gould S. W. Naturalist 15: 391 (1971).
Echinochloa aristata Raspail Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 5: 299 (1825), not validly publ.
Echinochloa composita J.Presl ex Nees in C.F.P.von Martius, Fl. Bras. Enum. Pl. 2: 259 (1829), pro syn.
Echinochloa crus-galli var. crus-pavonis (Kunth) Hitchc. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 22: 149 (1920).
Echinochloa crus-galli var. macera (Wiegand) Shinners Rhodora 56: 33 (1954).
Echinochloa crus-galli f. sabulicola (Nees) Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 21: 349 (1919 publ. 1920).
Echinochloa crus-galli f. sabulonum Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 21: 349 (1919 publ. 1920), orth. var.
Echinochloa kimayalaensis Vanderyst Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 16: 670 (1925).
Echinochloa sabulicola (Nees) Hitchc. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 17: 257 (1913).
Echinochloa zelayensis var. macera Wiegand Rhodora 23: 54 (1921).
Echinochloa zelayensis var. subaristata Wiegand Rhodora 23: 54 (1921).
Oplismenus angustifolius E.Fourn. Mexic. Pl. 2: 40 (1886).
Oplismenus crus-pavonis Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 108 (1816).
Oplismenus jamaicensis Kunth Enum. Pl. 1: 147 (1833).
Oplismenus sabulicola (Nees) Kunth Enum. Pl. 1: 145 (1833).
Panicum aristatum Macfad. Bot. Misc. 2: 115 (1830), nom. illeg.
Panicum colonum var. bussei Peter Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 40(1): 179 (1930).
Panicum crus-galli var. aristatum G.Mey. Prim. Fl. Esseq.: 53 (1818), nom. illeg.
Panicum crus-galli var. sabulicola (Nees) Trin. Sp. Gram. 2: t. 163 (1829).
Panicum crus-pavonis (Kunth) Nees in C.F.P.von Martius, Fl. Bras. Enum. Pl. 2: 259 (1829).
Panicum crus-pavonis var. rostratum Stapf in W.H.Harvey & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Cap. 7: 396 (1899).
Panicum horridum Salzm. ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 47 (1853), pro syn.
Panicum jamaicense (Kunth) Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 257 (1841).
Panicum sabulicola Nees in C.F.P.von Martius, Fl. Bras. Enum. Pl. 2: 258 (1829).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Echinochloa crus-pavonis (Kunth) J.A. Schultes var. macera	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Echinochloa crus-pavonis (Kunth) Schult.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Echinochloa crus-pavonis var. macera (Wieg.) Gould	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

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