Plant Details

Accepted name:: Imperata cylindrica (L.) Raeusch. [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alang-alang	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
bahir	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
bai mao	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
bai mao gen	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)
bai mao hua	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
baimao	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
baimaogen	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
balbajamu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
barhissu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
beady grass	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
bedding grass	Other	Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
beddinggras	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
berdi	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
bhalubi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
blady grass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bomullsgräs	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
busurin	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
bái máo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bái máo gēn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bái máo huā	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bái máo jiān	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
caminhadora	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cat tail	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
chaharu	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
chi-gaya	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
churki	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
cogon	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cogon grass	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
cogongrass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cotton grass	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
cotton-wool grass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cottonwool grass	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
cỏ tranh	Other	Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
daaba	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
daabh	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
daabha	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
daabhdo	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
dab	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
dabh	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
darabh	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
darbalu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
darbha	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
darbha (root)	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
darbha gaddi	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
darbhah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
darbhaipul	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
darbhappullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
darsnaa	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
davar	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
deil el-qot	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
dhaki banso	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
dharba	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
dharba gaddi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dharbai pullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dharbaipul	Other	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
dhub	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
djoto-oaßa	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
donsgras	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
dì jié gēn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
dì jiān	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
fakatenina	Other	Med. Pl. in Markets of Antananarivo, Madagascar (Randriamiharisoa et al., 2015)
fushige-chi-gaya	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
halfa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
hilalang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
ihuchué	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ilalang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
iluk	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014)
imom	Other	Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014)
imperata	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
imperata lalang grass rhizome	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
imperata rhizome	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
imperatae rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019) 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)
impérate	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
japanese blood grass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kans	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kariya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kharadarbha	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kiyon	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
kodi-pullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kogon	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kunai grass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kura-kura	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kutuka	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kxokwane	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
laa laeng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lalang	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
lalang grass	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
lalang grass rhizome	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
lalang jawa	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lalang-grass	Other	Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
lalanggras	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
liah	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
lichué	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
lieloang	Other	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
lihu	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
liku	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
ljaviya	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
modavagaddi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
modewa gaddi	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mohlaba-lerumo	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mohlabalerumo	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mohlabarumo	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mohlorumo	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mothlorumo	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
mutende	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
máo cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
máo cǎo yè	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
máo gēn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
máo gēn huā	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
nanal	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
neeru brahmi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
neeru hatthi hullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
nurigba	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
paillotte	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
palinggras	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
phulki	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
pula	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
qheme	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ramsammy grass	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
rasni-dab	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ravuc	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
rhizoma imperatae	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
river farm grass	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
river grass	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ruhenga	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
salame	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
sanna dabbac hullu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
sanna dabbe hullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sanna darbhe hullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sannadabbaihullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
sannadabbehullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sapé	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
satintail	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
sauraun	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shishmallah	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sil	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
silky grass	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
silver spike	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
silveraargras	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
silverspike	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
sir	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sirau	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
siru	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
siru gaas	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
spear grass	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
susanke	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
suuchyagra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
sygras	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
sī máo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
tharpaipullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
thatch grass	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
tlhorumo	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ulu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
umtente	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
umthente	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
urok hie	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
vidulam	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
woolly grass	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
wàn gēn cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
yagnika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
yagyabhuushana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
yajñamūla	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
yà bòng	Other	Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013)
\|\|xâi	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
śvētadarbha	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
بردي	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
حلفا	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
ذيل القط	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
ボウコン	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
万根草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
丝茅	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
千茅	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
地節根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
地菅	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
白茅	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
白茅根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay 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)
白茅花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
白茅菅	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
白茅针	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
穿山龍	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
茅仔	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
茅仔草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
茅根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
茅根花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
茅草	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
茅草叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
rhizome	dried rhizome	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
roots, leaves		Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Root		MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017)
Rhizome		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Rhizome		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Whole plant		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
Root, flowers		Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
runners		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Roots, flowers, branches, young buds		Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
rhizome, leaves, stem, root		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
rhizomes, root	dry plant material	Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014)
root		Med. Pl. in Markets of Antananarivo, Madagascar (Randriamiharisoa et al., 2015)
rhizome		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
rhizomes		Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
rhizome, flower		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
rhizomes, fruiting spikes		Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
Root		Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
rhizome	dried rhizome	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
rhizome	rhizome, rootlets and scale leaves removed	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006)
root	root	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
Root		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
rhizome		Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
rhizome		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
rhizome		Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 50 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Imperata angolensis Fritsch Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 1: 1096 (1901).
Imperata arundinacea Cirillo Pl. Rar. Neapol. 2: XXVI (1792).
Imperata arundinacea var. africana Andersson Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 12: 159 (1855).
Imperata arundinacea var. thunbergii (Retz.) Stapf in W.H.Harvey & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Cap. 7: 320 (1898), nom. superfl.
Imperata cylindrica var. africana (Andersson) C.E.Hubb. Joint Publ. Imp. Agric. Bur. 7: 10 (1944).
Imperata cylindrica var. koenigii (Retz.) Benth. ex Pilg. Fragm. Fl. Philipp. 1: 137 (1904).
Imperata cylindrica subsp. koenigii (Retz.) Masam. & Yanagita Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa 31: 326 (1941).
Imperata cylindrica var. major (Nees) C.E.Hubb. Grasses Mauritius: 96 (1940).
Imperata cylindrica var. thunbergii (Retz.) T.Durand & Schinz Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 693 (1894), nom. superfl.
Imperata dinteri Pilg. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 342 (1912).
Imperata koenigii (Retz.) P.Beauv. Ess. Agrostogr.: 165 (1812).
Imperata koenigii var. major Nees Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill.: 90 (1841).
Lagurus cylindricus L. Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 878 (1759).
Saccharum koenigii Retz. Observ. Bot. 5: 16 (1789).
Saccharum thunbergii Retz. Observ. Bot. 5: 17 (1789).
Arundo epigeios Forssk. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 144 (1840), pro syn.
Calamagrostis lagurus Koeler Descr. Gramin.: 112 (1802), nom. superfl.
Imperata allang Jungh. Tijdschr. Natuurl. Gesch. Physiol. 7: 295 (1840).
Imperata arundinacea var. europaea Andersson Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 12: 159 (1855).
Imperata arundinacea var. glabrescens Buse in F.A.W.Miquel, Pl. Jungh.: 366 (1854).
Imperata arundinacea var. indica Andersson Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 12: 159 (1855).
Imperata arundinacea var. koenigii (Retz.) Benth. Fl. Hongk.: 419 (1861).
Imperata arundinacea var. latifolia Hook.f. Fl. Brit. India 7: 106 (1896).
Imperata arundinacea var. pedicellata (Steud.) Debeaux Rech. Fl. Pyr. Or. 1: ? (1878).
Imperata cylindrica var. europaea (Andersson) Asch. & Graebn. Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 2(1): 37 (1898).
Imperata cylindrica subvar. koenigii (Retz.) T.Durand & Schinz Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 694 (1894).
Imperata cylindrica var. latifolia (Hook.f.) C.E.Hubb. Joint Publ. Imp. Agric. Bur. 7: 14 (1944).
Imperata cylindrica f. pallida Honda J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 3: 374 (1930).
Imperata cylindrica var. parviflora Batt. & Trab. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 53: 32 (1906).
Imperata cylindrica var. pedicellata (Steud.) Debeaux Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 32: 52 (1878).
Imperata filifolia Nees ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 405 (1854).
Imperata laguroides (Pourr.) J.Roux Nat. Monspel., Sér. Bot. 9: 177 (1958).
Imperata latifolia (Hook.f.) L.Liu Vasc. Pl. Hengduan Mount. 2: 2299 (1994).
Imperata pedicellata Steud. Flora 29: 22 (1846).
Imperata praecoquis Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 53: 385 (1939).
Imperata ramosa Andersson Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 12: 158 (1855), nom. superfl.
Imperata robustior A.Chev. Rev. Int. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 29: 114 (1949).
Imperata sieberi Opiz Naturalientausch 10: 190 (1825).
Imperata sisca P.Beauv. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 805 (1841), pro syn.
Imperata thunbergii (Retz.) Nees Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill.: 89 (1841).
Saccharum alopecurus Nees Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 100 (1850).
Saccharum cylindricum (L.) Lam. Encycl. 1: 594 (1785).
Saccharum diandrum J.Koenig ex Retz. Observ. Bot. 5: 16 (1789), nom. nud.
Saccharum europaeum Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 103 (1805), nom. superfl.
Saccharum indum Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 103 (1805), pro syn.
Saccharum laguroides Pourr. Mém. Acad. Sci. Toulouse 3: 326 (1788).
Saccharum negrosense Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 407 (1854), nom. superfl.
Saccharum sisca Cav. Icon. 3: 47 (1794).
Saccharum spicatum Burm. ex Kunth Enum. Pl. 1: 477 (1833), pro syn.
Saccharum spicatum J.Presl in C.B.Presl, Reliq. Haenk. 1: 346 (1830), nom. superfl.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Imperata angolensis Fritsch	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Imperata arundinacea	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Imperata arundinacea Cirillo	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Imperata arundinacea Cirillo africana Andersson	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Imperata arundinacea Cirillo thunbergii (Retz.)Stapf	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Imperata arundinacea Cyrillo.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Imperata clindirica (Linn) P Beauv	Veg. Drugs in Basavarajeeyam (Suryanarayana Raju, 2001)
Imperata cylindric var. major (Nees) C. E. Hubb.	Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013)
Imperata cylindrica	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
Imperata cylindrica (L.) Beauv var. koenigii (Retz.) Benth	Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017)
Imperata cylindrica (L.) Beauv. var. major (Nees) C. E. Hubb.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Imperata cylindrica (L.) Beauv. var. major (Nees) C.E.Hubb.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Imperata cylindrica (L.) P. Beauv.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Imperata cylindrica (L.) P. Beauv. Var. major (Ness) C. E. Hubb.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Imperata cylindrica (L.) P. Beauv. var. major (Nees) C. E. Hubb.	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
Imperata cylindrica (L.) P.Beauv.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Imperata cylindrica (L.) P.Beauv. var. major (Nees) C.E.Hubb.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
Imperata cylindrica (L.) P.Beauv. var. major (Nees) Hubb.	Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
Imperata cylindrica (L.) Raeusch.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. in Markets of Antananarivo, Madagascar (Randriamiharisoa et al., 2015) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. & Fungi Project (2015) Trad. Med. in Sri Lanka (Kankanamalage et al., 2014) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
Imperata cylindrica (L.) Raeuschel	Med. & Pois. Pl. 1 (Padua et al., 1999)
Imperata cylindrica (L.)P.Beauv	Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014)
Imperata cylindrica (L.)Raeusch.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Imperata cylindrica (L.)Raeusch. africana (Andersson)C.E.Hubb.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Imperata cylindrica (L.)Raeusch. koenigii (Retz.)Pilg.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Imperata cylindrica (L.)Raeusch. major (Nees)C.E.Hubb.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Imperata cylindrica (L.)Raeusch. thunbergii (Retz.)T.Durand & Schinz	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Imperata cylindrica (Linn.) Beauv.	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
Imperata cylindrica (Linn.) P. Beauv.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Imperata cylindrica (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
Imperata cylindrica Beauv.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Imperata cylindrica Beauv. Var. Koenigii Benth.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Imperata cylindrica Beauv. var. major (Nees) C. E. Hubb.	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Imperata cylindrica Beauvois	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Imperata cylindrica Beauvois var. koenigii Durand & Schinz ex A.Camus	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)
Imperata cylindrica Beauvois var. koenigii Durand et Schinz ex A. Camus	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
Imperata cylindrica Beauvois var. major Habard	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Imperata cylindrica P. Beauv. Var. Major (Nees) C. E. Hubb.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Imperata cylindrica Rausch.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Imperata cylindrica var. koenigii (L.) Beauvois	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Imperata cylindrica var. major	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Imperata cylindrica var. major (Nees) C. E. Hubb.	TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Imperata cylindrical (L.) Beauv.	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
Imperata dinteri Pilg.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Imperata koenigii	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Imperata koenigii (Retz.) P. Beauv.	Med. Pl. of Limu Mountains, China (Zheng et al., 2013)
Imperata koenigii (Retz.)P.Beauv. major Nees	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Lagurus cylindricus L.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Saccharum koenigii Retz.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Saccharum thunbergii Retz.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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