Plant Details

Accepted name:: Pogonatherum crinitum (Thunb.) Kunth [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bi zai cao	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
bi zai tsao	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
bēi	Other	Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013)
bǐ zī cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
golden hair grass	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
huáng máo cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jīn fā cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jīn sī cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jīn sī máo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
krishnamyilpulpatchilai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
māo máo cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
māo xū cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pogonatheri herba	Pharmaceutical	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
zyagazyagao	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
zyasiyubu	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
文筆草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
筆仔草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
貓毛草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
貓鬚草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金丝草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金絲茅	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金絲草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金髮草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
黃毛草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
whole plant		Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013)
herb	dried herb	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
whole shoot system		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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

Andropogon crinitus Thunb. in J.A.Murray (ed.), Syst. Veg., ed. 14.: 903 (1784).
Andropogon monandrus Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1: 264 (1820).
Andropogon peduncularis Kunth Révis. Gramin. 1: 166 (1829), nom. superfl.
Cinna filiformis Llanos Fragm. Pl. Filip.: 9 (1851), nom. illeg.
Homoplitis crinita (Thunb.) Trin. Fund. Agrost.: 166 (1820).
Ischaemum crinitum (Thunb.) Trin. Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, Sér. 6, Sci. Math. 2: 298 (1832).
Panicum polystachyum Burm. ex Kunth Enum. Pl. 1: 478 (1833), pro syn.
Pogonatherum refractum Nees ex Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy.: 239 (1837).
Pogonatherum saccharoideum var. crinitum (Thunb.) T.A.William Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 4: 221 (1904), pro syn.
Pogonatherum saccharoideum var. monandrum (Roxb.) Hack. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 6: 193 (1889).
Pogonopsis tenera J.Presl in C.B.Presl, Reliq. Haenk. 1: 333 (1830).
Pollinia monandra (Roxb.) Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 1: 288 (1824).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Pegonatherum crinitum (Thunb.) Kunth	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Pogonatherum crinitum	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
Pogonatherum crinitum (Thunb.) Kunth	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) 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)
Pogonatherum crinitum (Thunb.) Kunth.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Pogonatherum crinitum Kunth	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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