Plant Details

Accepted name:: Equisetum telmateia Ehrh. [Equisetaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
giant horsetail	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
great horsetail	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
shave grass	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Branch		Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 21 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Equisetum caenosum Clairv. Man. Herbor. Suisse: 303 (1811).
Equisetum eburneum Schreb. ex Roth Catal. Bot. 1: 128 (1797).
Equisetum eburneum var. serotinum Silliman Amer. Journ. 46: 84 (1844).
Equisetum macrostachion Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 5: 614 (1804).
Equisetum maximum var. serotinum (A.Br. ex Silliman) Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 14: 496 (1913).
Equisetum telmateia var. breve Milde Denkschr. Schles. Ges. Vaterl. Cult. 1853: 188 (1853).
Equisetum telmateia f. breve (Milde ) Luerss. Farnpflanzen 3: 679 (1889).
Equisetum telmateia f. caespitosum (Milde ) Luerss. Farnpflanzen 3: 678 (1889).
Equisetum telmateia var. caespitosum Milde Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 26: 429 (1858 publ. 1859).
Equisetum telmateia var. comosum (Milde ) Milde Monogr. Equiset.: 248 (1867).
Equisetum telmateia f. comosum Milde Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 26: 429 (1858 publ. 1859).
Equisetum telmateia var. gracile Milde Monogr. Equiset.: 247 (1867).
Equisetum telmateia f. gracile (Milde ) Luerss. Farnpflanzen 3: 678 (1889).
Equisetum telmateia f. humile (Milde ) Luerss. Krypt.-Fl. Anf., ed. 2, 3: 682 (1889).
Equisetum telmateia var. humile Milde Monogr. Equiset.: 249 (1867).
Equisetum telmateia var. nanum Van Hoek Acta Bot. Neerl. 28: 225 (1979).
Equisetum telmateia var. pleiostachyum Lange Haandb. Danske Fl.: 693 (1856).
Equisetum telmateia var. polystachyum J.J.Schmitz & Regel Fl. Bonn.: 11 (1841).
Equisetum telmateia var. ramulosum Milde Monogr. Equiset.: 248 (1867).
Equisetum telmateia f. ramulosum (Milde ) Luerss. Farnpflanzen 3: 679 (1889).
Presla eburnea (Schreb. ex Roth) Dulac Fl. Hautes-Pyrénées: 26 (1867).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Equisetum telmateia	Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
Equisetum telmateia Ehrh.	Ethnobot. in W Granada Province, Spain (Benítez et al., 2010) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Equisetum telmateia Ehrh. subsp. telmateia	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Equisetum telmateja	Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998)

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