Plant Details

Accepted name:: Tetrapanax papyrifer (Hook.) K.Koch [Araliaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aralia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
aralie à papier	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
chinese rice-paper-plant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kabaruwai	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
medulla tetrapanacis	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
natuh	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
pith-paper tree	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
reispapierbaum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
rice paper plant pith	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
rice-paper tree	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
rice-paper-plant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ricepaperplant pith	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
rispappersbuske	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tetrapanacis medulla	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
thông thảo	Other	Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
tong cao	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
tong tuo mu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tongcao	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
tongtuomu	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
tóngcăo	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
白通草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
花草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
蓪草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
通大海	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
通脱木	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
通脱木花上粉	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
通花	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
通花根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
通花花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
通草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) 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:
stem pith	dried stem pith	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
stem	dried stem pith	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Stem pith		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Others		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
pith in the stem	dried pith in the stem	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
Pith		Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
Inside stem		Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
stem pith	dried stem pith	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
stem		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 6 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Aralia papyrifera Hook. Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 50 (1852).
Aralia mairei H.Lév. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 13: 342 (1914).
Didymopanax papyrifer (Hook.) K.Koch ex Ed.Otto Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 18: 61 (1862).
Echinopanax papyrifer (Hook.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 271 (1891).
Fatsia papyrifera (Hook.) Miq. ex Witte Ann. Hort. Bot. 4: 93 (1861).
Panax papyrifer (Hook.) F.Muell. Fragm. 4: 122 (1864).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Aralia papyrifera Hook. f.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Aralia papyrifera Hooker	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Tetrapanax papyrierus (Hook.) K. Koch.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Tetrapanax papyrifer	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Tetrapanax papyrifer (Hook.) K. Koch	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Tetrapanax papyrifer (Hook.) K.Koch	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Tetrapanax papyrifera	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Tetrapanax papyrifera (Hook.) K. Koch	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
Tetrapanax papyrifera Koch	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Tetrapanax papyriferus (Hook.) K. Koch	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Tetrapanax papyriferus (Hook.) K. Koch.	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
Tetrapanax papyriferus (Hook.) K.Koch	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Tetrapanax papyriferus K.Koch	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)

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