Plant Details

Accepted name:: Bassia scoparia (L.) A.J.Scott [Amaranthaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ansérine belvédère	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
belvedere	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
belvedere cypress fruit	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
belvedere fruit	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
besen-radmelde	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
besenkraut	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
broom cypress	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
burningbush	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
common kochia	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
daepssari	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
di fu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
di fu zi	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
di fu zih	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
difuzi	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
fructus kochiae	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
fructus kochiae scopariae	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
hōkigi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kochia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kochia fruit	Other	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
kochiae fructus	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
mexican firebrush	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mexican fireweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mirabel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mirabela	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mock cypress	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sommarcypress	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
summer cypress	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
summer-cypress	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
地肤子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
地肤苗	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
地膚子	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Seed		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
ripe fruit	dried ripe fruit	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
fruit		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
fruit		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
fruit		Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
fruit		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)
fruit	well ripe fruit	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 49 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Chenopodium scoparia L. Sp. Pl.: 221 (1753).
Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad. Neues J. Bot. 3(3-4): 85 (1809).
Kochia scoparia var. sieversiana (Pall.) Ulbr. ex Asch. & Graebn. Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 5(1): 163 (1913), nom. superfl.
Kochia scoparia f. trichophylla (Voss) Schinz & Thell. Mitt. Bot. Mus. Univ. Zürich 46: 10 (1909).
Atriplex scoparia (L.) Crantz Inst. Rei Herb. 1: 208 (1766).
Bassia alata (Bates) A.J.Scott Feddes Repert. 89: 108 (1978).
Bassia littorea (Makino) Freitag & G.Kadereit Taxon 60: 73 (2011).
Bassia scoparia subsp. culta (Voss) Nebot, De la Torre, Mateo & Alcaraz Anales Biol., Fac. Biol., Univ. Murcia 16: 104 (1990).
Bassia scoparia var. culta Voss Deutsche Gartenrat 1: 289 (1903).
Bassia scoparia subsp. densiflora (Regel) Cirujano & Velayos Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 44: 577 (1987).
Bassia scoparia var. subvillosa (Moq.) Lambinon Bull. Soc. Échange Pl. Vasc. Eur. Occid. Bassin Médit. 26: 33 (2000).
Bassia scoparia var. trichophylla (Voss) S.L.Welsh Utah Fl., ed. 3: 113 (2003).
Bassia sicorica (O.Bolòs & Masclans) Greuter & Burdet Willdenowia 13: 282 (1983 publ. 1984).
Bassia sieversiana (Pall.) W.A.Weber Phytologia 67: 426 (1989).
Bushiola scoparia (L.) Nieuwl. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 4: 95 (1915).
Kochia alata Bates Amer. Bot. (Binghamton) 24: 52 (1918).
Kochia densiflora (Regel) Turcz. ex Aellen Mitt. Basler Bot. Ges. 2(1): 13 (1954).
Kochia littorea (Makino) Makino Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 27: 254 (1913).
Kochia parodii Aellen Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel 50: 151 (1938-1939 publ. 1939).
Kochia parodii var. contracta Aellen Darwiniana 5: 121 (1941), not validly publ.
Kochia parodii var. densa Aellen Darwiniana 5: 122 (1941).
Kochia parodii var. elongata Aellen Darwiniana 5: 121 (1941).
Kochia parodii var. glabrescens Aellen Darwiniana 5: 122 (1941).
Kochia scoparia var. alata C.H.Blom Acta Horti Gothob. 3: 154 (1927).
Kochia scoparia var. albovillosa Kitag. Rep. Exped. Manchoukuo Sect. IV 4: 78 (1936).
Kochia scoparia var. culta (Voss) Voss Deutsche Gartenrat 2: 18 (1904 publ. 1905).
Kochia scoparia subsp. culta (Voss) O.Bolòs & Vigo Butl. Inst. Catalana Hist. Nat., Secc. Bot. 38(1): 88 (1974).
Kochia scoparia f. densa (Aellen) A.Soriano Revista Argent. Agron. 12: 54 (1945).
Kochia scoparia subsp. densiflora (Regel) Aellen Mitt. Basler Bot. Ges. 2(1): 15 (1954).
Kochia scoparia var. densiflora Moq. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 131 (1849), nom. superfl.
Kochia scoparia f. densiflora Regel Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, 4(4): 122 (1861).
Kochia scoparia subsp. hirsutissima Sukhor. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 104: 700 (2003).
Kochia scoparia var. littorea Makino Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 23: 12 (1909).
Kochia scoparia f. littorea (Makino) Kitam. Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 20: 206 (1962).
Kochia scoparia sieversiana (Pall.) Graebn. in P.F.A.Ascherson & K.O.R.Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 5(1): 163 (1913).
Kochia scoparia var. songarica (Siev. ex Pall.) Moq. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 131 (1849).
Kochia scoparia f. suaedifolia (Kitag.) K.P.Ma Fl. Heilongjiangensis 4: 404 (1992).
Kochia scoparia var. subglabra Moq. Chenop. Monogr. Enum.: 91 (1840).
Kochia scoparia var. subvillosa Moq. Chenop. Monogr. Enum.: 91 (1840).
Kochia scoparia var. trichophylla (Voss) L.H.Bailey Man. Cult. Pl. 250 (1924).
Kochia sicorica O.Bolòs & Masclans Butl. Inst. Catalana Hist. Nat., Secc. Bot. 38(1): 89 (1974).
Kochia sieversiana (Pall.) C.A.Mey. in C.F.von Ledebour, Fl. Altaic. 1: 415 (1829).
Kochia trichophylla Voss Tribune Hort. 2: 445 (1907).
Kochia virgata Kostel. Ind. Hort. Bot. Prag.: 77 (1844).
Salsola scoparia (L.) M.Bieb. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou, ed. 2, 1: 144 (1811).
Salsola sieversiana Pall. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 848 (1840), not validly publ.
Salsola songarica Siev. ex Pall. Ill. Pl.: 35 (1803).
Suaeda cinerea Schur Enum. Pl. Transsilv.: 570 (1866).
Suaeda sieversiana Pall. Ill. Pl.: 45 (1803).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Bassia scoparia (L.) A. J. Scott	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Bassia scoparia (L.) A.J. Scott	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Bassia scoparia (L.) A.J.Scott	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Bassia scoparia (L.) Scott	Checklist of Korean Cult. Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986)
Chenopodium scoparium L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Kochia scoparia	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad.	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad. f. trichophylla (Hort.) Schinz. & Thell.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad. var. sieversiana (Pll.) Ulbr. ex Aschers. & Gaertn.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Kochia scoparia (L.)Schrad.	TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011)
Kochia scoparia Schrader	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Kochia scparia (L.) Schrad	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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