Plant Details

Accepted name:: Lycium chinense Mill. [Solanaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 2

Lycium chinense var. chinense

Lycium chinense var. potaninii (Pojark.) A.M.Lu

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
barbary wolfberry fruit	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
bredbladigt bocktörne	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
chinese box-thorn	Other	Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
chinese boxthorn	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
chinese desert thorn	Other	Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
chinese desert-thorn	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
chinese matrimony vine	Other	Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
chinese matrimony-vine	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
chinese teaplant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
chinese wolfberry	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
chinese wolfberry root bark	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
chinese wolfberry root-bark	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
chinesischer bocksdorn	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
cortex lycii	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
cortex lycii radicis	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
daun koki	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
di gu pi	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
digupi	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
fructus lycii	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
gou ci zih	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
gou qi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
gou qi zi	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
gou qi zi#	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
gugija	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
gugijanamu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
kaukichai	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
kuko	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
licio	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
lyciet	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
lyciet de chine	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
lycii cortex	Pharmaceutical	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
lycii fructus	Pharmaceutical	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
lycii radicis cortex	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
lycium	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
lycium bark	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
lycium fruit	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
lycium root bark	Other	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
spina santa cinese	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
wolfberry	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
wolfberry rootbark	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
クコシ	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
ジコッピ	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
地骨皮	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
枸杞	Other	Consv. of Endangered Med. Pl. in Arid Desert Region (Lang et al., 2017) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
枸杞子	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
root bark	dried root bark	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
fruit	ripe fruit	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
ripe fruit	dried ripe fruit	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
fruit, root-bark		Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
root bark, fruit		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
fruit		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
root bark	dried root bark	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
root bark	root bark	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006)
root bark		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
fruit	dried fruit	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
root bark		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
fruit	dried fruit	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 1 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Lycium barbarum var. chinense (Mill.) Aiton Hort. Kew. 1: 257 (1789).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Lycium chinense	Substances in Medicines, Australia (TGA, 2007)
Lycium chinense Mill.	A Check-list of the Korean Cultivated Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986) Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) Neuraminidase Inhib. Med. Pl. in Lingnan TCM (Liu, 2018) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Lycium chinense Miller	Consv. of Endangered Med. Pl. in Arid Desert Region (Lang et al., 2017) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015)
Lycium chinense Miller.	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015)
Lycium chinense P. Mill.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Lycium chinensis	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)

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