Plant Details

Accepted name:: Arctium lappa L. [Asteraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 2

Arctium lappa subsp. lappa

Arctium lappa subsp. platylepis (Boiss. & Balansa) Arènes

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
arctii fructus	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
arctii radix	Pharmaceutical	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
arctii semen	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
arctium fructus	Pharmaceutical	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
arctium fruit	Other	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
baba adam	Other	Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
bardana	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
bardana radice	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
bardana, raiz	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
bardana, raíz de	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
bardana-maior	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bardanae radix	Pharmaceutical	E-Kommission: Unapproved Status (1984-1994) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
bardane comestible	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bardane grande	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
beggar's button	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
beggar's-buttons	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bur	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
burdock	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
burdock fruit	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
burdock root	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
burrerod	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
byi bzung	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
byi-bzung	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
byid-zung	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
clotbur	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
cockle buttons	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cocklebur	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
commonorgreat burdock	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
dadža saknes	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
edible burdock	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
erva dos tinhosos	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
eßbare klettenwurzel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
fructus arctii	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
glouteron	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
gobo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
goboshi	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
gobō	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
gouteron	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
grande bardane	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
grateron	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
great burdock	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
great burdock achene	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
great burdock fruit	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
greater burdock	Other	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
greater burrdock	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
große klette	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
jangli kuth	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
japanische klettenwurzel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ji zung	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
klette	Other	Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
klettenwurzel	Other	E-Kommission: Unapproved Status (1984-1994) EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
klitwortel	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
korenina navadnega repinca	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
korzeń łopianu	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
kurya	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
kut	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
közönséges bojtorján gyökér	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
lampazo mayor	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lapa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lappa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lappa major	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
lopuchový kořen	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
lopúchový koreň	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
melpang	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
ngưu bàng	Other	Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
niou bang zih	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
niu ban	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
niu bang zi	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
niu bang zi, niu bang zi	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
niubang	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
niubangzi	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)
niupangzi	Other	Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014)
niú bàng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
niú bàng gēn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
niúbàngzǐ	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
pegamaço	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
phaggarmul	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
phaggarmuul	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
páng wēng cài	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
repušina	Other	Native Med. Pl. of Mt. Rtanj (Zlatković et al., 2014)
rădăcină de brusture	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
shǔ zhān cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
stor kardborre, rot	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
storborrerot	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
takjajuur	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
thorny bur	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
xiàng ěr duǒ	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
xue rong mu	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Tibetans in Shangri-La, Yunnan (Liu et al., 2009)
čičak	Other	Native Med. Pl. of Mt. Rtanj (Zlatković et al., 2014)
ρίζα αρκτίου	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
лопух	Other	Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015)
репей, корен	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
བྱི་བཟུང་།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
‫أرقطيون‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
ゴボウシ	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
旁翁菜	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
牛蒡	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
牛蒡子	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
牛蒡根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
牛蒡茎叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
象耳朵	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
鼠粘草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
leaf		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
Herba		Native Med. Pl. of Mt. Rtanj (Zlatković et al., 2014)
radix		EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009)
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Root		Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
Fruit		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Fruit		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Root		Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014)
ripe fruit	dried ripe fruit	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
root		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
root, leaves, seed		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
leaves, root		Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
fruit		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
fruit		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
root		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Fruit (achene)		Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
Seed, root		Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
fruit	fruit	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006)
seed		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
root	vegetal drug, dry extract, fluid extract, powdered drug	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
Fruit		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
fruit		Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
fruit		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
fruit		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)
fruit		Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Arctium majus Bernh. Syst. Verz. Erf.: 154 (1800), nom. superfl.
Arctium lappa subsp. majus Arènes Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 20: 75 (1950), not validly publ.
Arctium ruderale Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 184 (1796), nom. superfl.
Lappa arctium Hill Veg. Syst. 4: 51 (1762).
Lappa bardana Moench Methodus: 552 (1794), nom. superfl.
Lappa bardana var. major Čelak. Prodr. Fl. Böhmen: 249 (1871), not validly publ.
Lappa communis Coss. Fl. Descr. Anal. Paris: 389 (1845), nom. superfl.
Lappa communis var. major Coss. Fl. Descr. Anal. Paris: 389 (1845), not validly publ.
Lappa lappa (L.) H.Karst. Deut. Fl.: 1121 (1883), not validly publ.
Lappa major Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 379 (1791), nom. superfl.
Lappa officinalis All. Fl. Pedem. 1: 145 (1785), nom. superfl.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Arctium Iappa L.	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
Arctium lappa	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) Med. Pl. in Russia & C Asia (Mamedov et al., 2005) 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)
Arctium lappa L.	Checklist of Korean Cult. Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) EMA Com. Monog.: Arctium lappa, rad. (2009) Food & Med. in Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014) Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med. & Pois. Pl. 2 (Valkenburg et al., 1999) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Med. Pl. in the Med.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Native Med. Pl. of Mt. Rtanj (Zlatković et al., 2014) Neuraminidase Inhib. Med. Pl. in Lingnan TCM (Liu et al., 2018) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Arctium lappa Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med. Pl. Used by Tibetans in Shangri-La, Yunnan (Liu et al., 2009)
Arctium lappa Linnaeus	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
Arctium lappa Linne	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)
Arctium lappa Linné	E-Kommission: Unapproved Status (1984-1994) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
Arctium majus (Gaertn.) Bernh.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Arctium majus (Gaertner) Bemhardi	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Arctium majus (L.) Bernh.	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Arctium majus Bernh.	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
Arctiumlappa L.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Aticum lappa	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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