Plant Details

Accepted name:: Miscanthus sinensis Andersson [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
芒	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
芒根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
芒气笋子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
芒花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
芒茎	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 71 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Eulalia japonica (Thunb.) Trin. Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, Sér. 6, Sci. Math. 2: 333 (1832).
Erianthus japonicus (Thunb.) P.Beauv. Ess. Agrostogr.: 14 (1812).
Eulalia japonica var. gracillima (Hitchc.) Grier Amer. Midl. Naturalist 11: 331 (1929).
Eulalia japonica zebrina (Van Geert) Van Houtte Nursery Cat. (Louis van Houtte) 177: 125 (1878-1879 publ. 1878).
Eulalia japonica var. zebrina (Van Geert) G.Nicholson Ill. Dict. Gard.: 538 (1888).
Eulalia zebrina Van Geert Nursery Cat. (Auguste Van Geert) 76: 25 (1878).
Miscanthus boninensis Nakai ex Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 42: 130 (1928).
Miscanthus chejuensis Y.N.Lee Korean J. Bot. 17: 85 (1974).
Miscanthus chrysander Ôkubo Cat. Pl. Bot. Gard. Univ. Tokyo: 3 (1895), nom. nud.
Miscanthus condensatus Hack. Bull. Herb. Boissier 7: 639 (1899).
Miscanthus condensatus var. intermedius Y.N.Lee J. Jap. Bot. 39: 117 (1964).
Miscanthus condensatus f. purpurascens (Y.N.Lee) M.Kim Korean Endemic Pl.: 565 (2017).
Miscanthus condensatus var. purpurascens Y.N.Lee Bull. Korea Pl. Res. 6: 19 (2006).
Miscanthus coreensis Hack. Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 4: 531 (1904).
Miscanthus flavidus Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 37: 113 (1923).
Miscanthus hidakanus Honda J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 3: 379 (1930).
Miscanthus ionandros Nakai Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 31: 13 (1917).
Miscanthus kanehirae Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 42: 132 (1928).
Miscanthus kokusanensis Nakai & Honda J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 3: 388 (1930).
Miscanthus kokusanensis var. variegatus (Honda) Nakai & Honda Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus. Tokyo 31: 140 (1952).
Miscanthus kokusanensis f. variegatus Honda J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 3: 388 (1930).
Miscanthus littoralis Honda J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 3: 388 (1930).
Miscanthus matsudae Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 37: 114 (1923).
Miscanthus matsudae var. glabrescens Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 42: 131 (1925).
Miscanthus miser Nakai ex Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 52: 517 (1938).
Miscanthus nakaianus Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 42: 130 (1928).
Miscanthus neocoreanus Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 49: 694 (1935).
Miscanthus purpurascens Andersson Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 12: 167 (1855).
Miscanthus pycnocephalus Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 42: 131 (1928).
Miscanthus pycnocephalus var. purpurascens Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 42: 132 (1928).
Miscanthus sinensis var. albiflorus Y.N.Lee Bull. Korea Pl. Res. 2: 23 (2002).
Miscanthus sinensis f. albiflorus (Y.N.Lee) M.Kim Korean Endemic Pl.: 566 (2017).
Miscanthus sinensis var. chejuensis (Y.N.Lee) Y.N.Lee Fl. Korea: 1164 (1996).
Miscanthus sinensis f. chejuensis (Y.N.Lee) M.Kim Korean Endemic Pl.: 566 (2017).
Miscanthus sinensis var. condensatus (Hack.) Makino Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 31: 14 (1917).
Miscanthus sinensis subsp. condensatus (Hack.) T.Koyama Grass. Japan: 518 (1987).
Miscanthus sinensis var. coriaceus T.Mori Enum. Pl. Corea: 46 (1922), nom. nud.
Miscanthus sinensis f. crassiracemus Ohwi Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 11: 150 (1942).
Miscanthus sinensis f. decompositus Nakai Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 31: 16 (1917).
Miscanthus sinensis var. decompositus (Nakai) Honda J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 3: 384 (1930).
Miscanthus sinensis var. formosanus Hack. Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 4: 526 (1904).
Miscanthus sinensis f. glaber Nakai Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 31: 17 (1917), nom. nud.
Miscanthus sinensis f. gracillimus (Hitchc.) Ohwi Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 11: 149 (1942).
Miscanthus sinensis var. gracillimus Hitchc. in L.H.Bailey, Cycl. Amer. Hort. 3: 1021 (1901).
Miscanthus sinensis f. hashimotoi Ohwi Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 11: 150 (1942).
Miscanthus sinensis var. intermedius Matsum. Index Pl. Jap. 2(1): 66 (1905), nom. nud.
Miscanthus sinensis var. ionandros (Nakai) Y.N.Lee J. Jap. Bot. 39: 293 (1964).
Miscanthus sinensis var. keumunensis Y.N.Lee J. Jap. Bot. 39: 119 (1964).
Miscanthus sinensis var. longiaxis Y.N.Lee J. Jap. Bot. 39: 118 (1964).
Miscanthus sinensis var. nakaianus (Honda) I.C.Chung J. Washington Acad. Sci. 45: 215 (1955).
Miscanthus sinensis f. porphyrocomus Ohwi Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 11: 149 (1942).
Miscanthus sinensis f. purpurascens (Andersson) Nakai Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 31: 16 (1917).
Miscanthus sinensis subsp. purpurascens (Andersson) Tzvelev Zlaki SSSR: 693 (1976).
Miscanthus sinensis var. purpurascens (Andersson) Matsum. Shokubutsu Mai-i, ed. 2: 189 (1895).
Miscanthus sinensis f. pycnocephalus (Honda) Ohwi Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 11: 149 (1942).
Miscanthus sinensis f. transiticus Nakai Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 31: 16 (1917).
Miscanthus sinensis var. transiticus (Nakai) T.Mori Enum. Pl. Corea: 46 (1922).
Miscanthus sinensis f. variegatus (Beal) Nakai Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 31: 15 (1917).
Miscanthus sinensis var. variegatus Beal Grass. N. Amer. 2: 25 (1896).
Miscanthus sinensis f. viridis (Y.N.Lee) M.Kim Korean Endemic Pl.: 566 (2017).
Miscanthus sinensis var. viridis Y.N.Lee Bull. Korea Pl. Res. 6: 16 (2006).
Miscanthus sinensis var. yogoi Honda ex Yogo Shuso-gun Hakubutsu Shi 1: t. 3 (1929).
Miscanthus sinensis f. zebrinus (Van Geert) Nakai Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 31: 15 (1917).
Miscanthus sinensis var. zebrinus (Van Geert) Matsum. Index Seminum (TI, Tokyo) 1895: 3 (1895).
Miscanthus transmorrisonensis Hayata J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 30(1): 404 (1911).
Miscanthus zebrinus (Van Geert) Nakai ex Matsum. Shokubutsu Mai-i 2: 254 (1916).
Ripidium japonicum (Thunb.) Trin. Fund. Agrost.: 169 (1820).
Saccharum japonicum Thunb. Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 328 (1794).
Saccharum roseum Reinw. ex Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. 3: 518 (1857), nom. nud.
Xiphagrostis condensata (Hack.) W.Wight Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 137: 17 (1909).
Xiphagrostis japonica (Thunb.) Coville Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 9: 400 (1905).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Eulallia japonica	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Miscanthus sinensis	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Miscanthus sinensis Anders.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Miscanthus sinensis Anderson	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Miscanthus sinensis Anderss.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Miscanthus sinensis Andersson	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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