Plant Details

Accepted name:: Bletilla striata (Thunb.) Rchb.f. [Orchidaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bai ji	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
baiji	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
bletilla	Other	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Spp. in Primer (AHPA, 2013) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
bletilla rhizome	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
bletillae rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
báijí	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
bạch cập	Other	Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
chinese ground orchid	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
common bletilla	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
common bletilla tuber	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
hardy orchid	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
hyacinth bletilla	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
hyacinth orchid	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
jaran	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mikadoblomma	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pa to la	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
rhizoma bletillae	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
rhizoma bletillae striatae	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
shiran	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
urn orchid	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
པ་ཏོ་ལ།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
白及	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
tuber	dried tuber	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
tuber	dried tuber	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Bulb		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Bulb		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
tuber	dried tuber	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
rhizome		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Pseudobulbs		Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
Root		Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
tuber	dried tuber	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
rhizome		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 22 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Bletia hyacinthina (Sm.) Aiton Hortus Kew. 5: 206 (1813).
Limodorum striatum Thunb. in J.A.Murray (ed.), Syst. Veg., ed. 14.: 816 (1784).
Bletia gebina Lindl. J. Hort. Soc. London 2: 307 (1847).
Bletia hyacinthina var. gebina (Lindl.) Blume Coll. Orchid.: 17 (1858).
Bletia hyacinthina var. liukiuensis S.Sakag. Gen. Ind. Fl. Okinawa: 80 (1924).
Bletia striata (Thunb.) Druce Rep. Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 1916: 609 (1917).
Bletilla elegantula (Kraenzl.) Garay & G.A.Romero Harvard Pap. Bot. 3: 53 (1998).
Bletilla gebina (Lindl.) Rchb.f. Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 8: 246 (1853).
Bletilla striata var. albomarginata Makino J. Jap. Bot. 6: 31 (1929).
Bletilla striata f. gebina (Lindl.) Ohwi Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus. Tokyo 33: 70 (1953).
Bletilla striata var. gebina (Lindl.) Rchb.f. Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 36: 75 (1878).
Calanthe gebina (Lindl.) Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 6: 11 (1855).
Coelogyne elegantula Kraenzl. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 111 (1921).
Cymbidium hyacinthinum Sm. Exot. Bot. 1: 117 (1805).
Cymbidium striatum (Thunb.) Sw. Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal., ser. 2, 6: 77 (1799).
Epidendrum striatum (Thunb.) Thunb. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 2: 327 (1794).
Gyas humilis Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 300 (1812).
Jimensia nervosa Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 38 (1838).
Jimensia striata (Thunb.) Garay & R.E.Schult. Bot. Mus. Leafl. 18: 184 (1958).
Limodorum hyacinthinum (Sm.) Donn Hortus Cantabrig., ed. 4: 201 (1807).
Polytoma inodora Lour. ex B.A.Gomes Mem. Acad. Real Sci. Lisboa, 2 Cl. Sci. Moraes, n.s., 4(1): 30 (1872).
Sobralia bletioides Brongn. ex Decne. Rev. Hort. (Paris), sér. 3, 1: 421 (1847).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Bletia hyacinthina	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Bletia hyacinthina R.Brown	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Bletilla striata	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Spp. in Primer (AHPA, 2013) Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Bletilla striata (Thunb) Rchb.f.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Bletilla striata (Thunb. ex A. Murray) Rchb. f.	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Bletilla striata (Thunb. ex Murray) Reichb.f.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Bletilla striata (Thunb.) Rchb. f.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
Bletilla striata (Thunb.) Rchb.f.	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Bletilla striata (Thunb.) Reich.	Checklist of Korean Cult. Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986)
Bletilla striata (Thunb.) Reichb. f.	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Bletilla striata (Thunb.) Reichb.f.	Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
Bletilla striata (Thunb.) Reichenb. F.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Bletilla striata (Thunberg) Reichenbach fil.	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
Bletilla striata Rchb.f.	Medicinal Orchids of Asia (Teoh, 2016)
Limodorum striata Thunb.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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