Plant Details

Accepted name:: Typha orientalis C.Presl [Typhaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
broadleaf cumbungi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bulrush	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
cat-tail	Other	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
cattail	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
cattail pollen	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010)
dong fang xiang pu	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
gama	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
hsiang p'u	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
lesser reed-mace	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mace reed	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
oriental cattail	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
p'o heung	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
p'u hsiang	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
p'u o	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
p'u sun	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
p'u wang	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
phoo wong	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
pollen typhae	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacop. of China (2005)
pu huang	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
puhuang	Other	Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015)
typha pollen	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
typhae pollen	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
東方香蒲	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
蒲黃	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
蒲黄	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
pollen	dried pollen	Pharmacop. of China (2010)
pollen	dried pollen	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
pollen	dried pollen	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
pollen		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
pollen	dried pollen	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
pollen		Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 7 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Typha japonica Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 2: 160 (1866).
Typha angustifolia subsp. muelleri (Rohrb.) Graebn. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 2: 13 (1900).
Typha latifolia var. orientalis (C.Presl) Rohrb. Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 11: 80 (1869).
Typha muelleri Rohrb. Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 11: 95 (1869).
Typha orientalis var. brunnea Skvortsov in A.I.Baranov & B.V.Skvortsov, Diagn. Pl. Nov. Mandsh.: 1 (1943).
Typha shuttleworthii Lehm. Pl. Preiss. 2: 1 (1846), nom. illeg.
Typha shuttleworthii subsp. orientalis (C.Presl) Graebn. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 8: 10 (1900).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Typha japonica	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Typha orientalis	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Typha orientalis C. Presl	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Typha orientalis C.Presl	Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Typha orientalis Preel	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Typha orientalis Presl	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Typha orientalis Presl.	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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