Plant Details

Accepted name:: Cortaderia selloana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Asch. & Graebn. [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
cola de zorro	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
cortadera	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
paja cortadera	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
pampas grass	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
penacho de las pampas	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
plumacho	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
silver pampas grass	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
uruguayan pampas grass	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
uruguayan pampasgrass	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaf, Rhizome, Root		Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)

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

Arundo dioeca Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 1: 361 (1824), nom. illeg.
Arundo kila Spreng. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 144 (1840), pro syn.
Arundo selloana Schult. & Schult.f. Mant. 3: 605 (1827).
Cortaderia argentea (Nees) Stapf Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 22: 396 (1897).
Cortaderia dioeca Speg. Anales Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 7: 194 (1902), nom. superfl.
Gynerium argenteum Nees in C.F.P.von Martius, Fl. Bras. Enum. Pl. 2: 462 (1829).
Gynerium argenteum var. albolineatum W.Bull Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 4: 133 (1864).
Gynerium argenteum bertinii Jacob-Makoy Nursery Cat. (L. Jacob-Makoy & Co.) 114: 80 (1870).
Gynerium dioicum Dallière Pl. Ornam. Feuill. 1: t. 42 (1873), pro syn.
Gynerium elegans Van Geert Nursery Cat. (Auguste Van Geert) 78: 15 (1879).
Gynerium purpureum Carrière Rev. Hort. (Paris) 38: 419 (1866).
Moorea argentea (Nees) Lem. Ill. Hort. 2(Misc.): 14 (1855).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cortaderia selloana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Asch. & Graebn.	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Cortaderia selloana (Schult.) Asch. & Graebn.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

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