Plant Details

Accepted name:: Lycopodium japonicum Thunb. [Lycopodiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
common clubmoss	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
common clubmoss herb	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
guò shān lóng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
g石松	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
herba lycopodii	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
jīn gǔ cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jīn máo shī zǐ cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kuān jīn téng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lycopodii herba	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
shen jin cao	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
shenjincao	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
shison	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
shí sōng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
shēn jīn cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
wú gōng téng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
伸筋草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
寬筋藤	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
石松	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
石松子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
筋骨草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
蜈蚣藤	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
過山龍	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金毛獅子草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
herb	dried herb	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
Whole plant		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Whole grass		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
herb	dried herb	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
whole plant with roots		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
herb	dried herb	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 13 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Lycopodium centrochinense Ching Acta Bot. Yunnan. 4: 224 (1982).
Lycopodium clavatum var. nipponicum Nakai Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 39: 197 (1925).
Lycopodium clavatum var. wallichianum Spring Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Belgique 8: 90 (1841).
Lycopodium divaricatum Wall. ex Hook. & Grev. Bot. Misc. 2: 377 (1831).
Lycopodium interjectum Ching & H.S.Kung Acta Bot. Yunnan. 4: 221 (1982).
Lycopodium japonicum var. wallichianum (Spring) Satou Hikobia 12: 269 (1997).
Lycopodium japonicum f. yunnanense (Ching) W.M.Chu Fl. Yunnanica 20: 25 (2006).
Lycopodium kinabaluense Ching Acta Bot. Yunnan. 4: 223 (1982).
Lycopodium pseudoclavatum Ching Acta Bot. Yunnan. 4: 222 (1982).
Lycopodium pseudoclavatum var. yunnanense Ching Acta Bot. Yunnan. 4: 223 (1982).
Lycopodium simulans Ching & H.S.Kung Acta Bot. Yunnan. 4: 220 (1982).
Lycopodium taliense Ching Acta Bot. Yunnan. 4: 221 (1982).
Stachygynandrum japonicum (Thunb.) P.Beauv. Prodr. Aethéogam.: 113 (1905).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Lycopodium centro-chinense Ching	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Lycopodium japonicum	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Lycopodium japonicum Thunb.	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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