Plant Details

Accepted name:: Miscanthus fuscus (Roxb.) Benth. [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alagu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
champuither	Other	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
fusca	Other	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
galagu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
galakuhullu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ikshwalika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kandurellu-gaddi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kandurellugaddi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 15 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Saccharum fuscum Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1: 236 (1820).
Sclerostachya fusca (Roxb.) A.Camus in H.Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 7: 243 (1922).
Arundo orientalis Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 6 (1768).
Eriochrysis attenuata Nees ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 411 (1854), nom. superfl.
Eriochrysis fusca (Roxb.) Trin. Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, Sér. 6, Sci. Math. 2: 315 (1832).
Miscanthus ridleyi (Hack.) I.M.Turner Asian J. Trop. Biol. 1(2): 26 (1995).
Saccharum baka Buch.-Ham. ex Arn. Mag. Zool. Bot. 11: 427 (1838).
Saccharum brunneum Desv. Mém. Soc. Agric. Angers 1: 169 (1831).
Saccharum modhara Hook.f. Fl. Brit. India 7: 120 (1896), pro syn.
Saccharum modhuja Buch.-Ham. ex Arn. Mag. Zool. Bot. 11: 427 (1838).
Saccharum nareya Benth. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 66 (1881), orth. var.
Saccharum ridleyi Hack. Oesterr. Bot. Z. 41: 6 (1891).
Sclerostachya milroyi Bor Indian Forest Rec., Bot., n.s., 1: 85 (1938).
Sclerostachya ridleyi (Hack.) A.Camus Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n.s., 71: 104 (1925).
Tricholaena fusca (Roxb.) Schult. Mant. 2: 164 (1824).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Miscanthus fuscus (Roxb.) Benth	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
Miscanthus fuscus (Roxb.) Benth.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Saccharum fuscum Roxb.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Sclerostachya fusca (Roxb.) A. Camus	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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