Plant Details

Accepted name:: Woodwardia japonica (L.f.) Sm. [Aspleniaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
gouji	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
狗脊	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
狗脊贯众	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Rhizome		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 6 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Blechnum japonicum L.f. Suppl. Pl.: 445 (1782).
Woodwardia cochin-chinensis Ching Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 2: 7 (1931).
Woodwardia affinis Ching & P.S.Chiu Acta Phytotax. Sin. 12: 246 (1974).
Woodwardia japonica var. contigua Ching & P.S.Chiu Acta Phytotax. Sin. 12: 246 (1974).
Woodwardia japonica var. latisecta Tagawa Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 5: 176 (1936).
Woodwardia omeiensis Ching ex P.S.Chiu Acta Phytotax. Sin. 12: 245 (1974).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Blechnum japonicum L. f.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Woodwardia cochinchinensis Ching	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Woodwardia japonica (L. f.) Sm.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Neuraminidase Inhib. Med. Pl. in Lingnan TCM (Liu et al., 2018) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Woodwardia japonica (L. f.) Smith	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Woodwardia japonica (L.f.) Sm.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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