Plant Details

Accepted name:: Saccharum spontaneum subsp. aegyptiacum (Willd.) Hack. [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Saccharum spontaneum L.
Infraspecies:: Saccharum spontaneum subsp. spontaneum

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
kans	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kash	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
la canne d'egypt	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
um ghruf	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 7 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Saccharum aegyptiacum Willd. Enum. Pl.: 82 (1809).
Saccharum biflorum Forssk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 16 (1775).
Saccharum palisotii Tausch Flora 19: 527 (1836).
Saccharum punctatum Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 46 (1827).
Saccharum spontaneum subsp. aegyptiacum (Willd.) A.DC. Monogr. Phan. 6: 115 (1889).
Saccharum spontaneum subsp. biflorum (Forssk.) Pilg. in R.E.Fries, Wiss. Erg. Schwed. Rhodesia-Kongo-Exp. 1911-1912, 1: 191 (1916).
Saccharum spontaneum var. aegyptiacum (Willd.) Hack. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 6: 115 (1889).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Saccharum aegyptiacum Willd.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Saccharum biflorum Forssk.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Saccharum palisotii Tausch	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Saccharum palisotii Tausch.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Saccharum punctatum Schumach.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Saccharum spontaneum L. aegyptiacum (Willd.)Hack.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Saccharum spontaneum L. aegypticum (Willd.)Hack.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Saccharum spontaneum L. biflorum (Forssk.)Pilg.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Saccharum spontaneum subsp. aegyptiacum (Willd.)Hack.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

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