Plant Details

Accepted name:: Miscanthus floridulus (Labill.) Warb. ex K.Schum. & Lauterb. [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
capim-chinês-prateado	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
capim-japonês-prateado	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
giant chinese silver grass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
japanese silver grass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
miscanthus	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
wu jie mang	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
芭茅	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
芭茅果	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
苦芦骨	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 12 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Miscanthus japonicus Andersson Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 12: 166 (1855).
Erianthus floridulus (Labill.) Schult. & Schult.f. Mant. 3: 563 (1827).
Eulalia densa (Nees) Munro in B.Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald: 424 (1857).
Miscanthus formosanus A.Camus Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 30: 514 (1924).
Miscanthus luzonensis Andersson Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 12: 166 (1855).
Miscanthus ryukyuensis Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 51: 58 (1937).
Saccharum densum Nees Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 100 (1850).
Saccharum distichophyllum Steud. ex Jard. Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 5: 299, 325 (1857), nom. nud.
Saccharum floridulum Labill. Sert. Austro-Caledon.: 13 (1824).
Saccharum japonicum Houtt. Nat. Hist. 2(13): 146 (1782), pro syn.
Saccharum praegrande Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 408 (1854), nom. superfl.
Xiphagrostis floridula (Labill.) Coville Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 9: 399 (1905).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Miscanthus floridulus	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Miscanthus floridulus (Labill.) Warb.	Fijian Med. Pl. (Cambie & Ash, 1994) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Miscanthus floridulus (Labill.) Warb. ex K. Schum. & Lauterb.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Miscanthus floridulus (Labill.) Warb. ex K.Schum. & Lauterb.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Miscanthus japonica	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Miscanthus japonicus	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)

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