Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dendrobium officinale Kimura & Migo [Orchidaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
chinese orchid	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
dendrobii caulis	Pharmaceutical	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
dendrobii officinalis caulis	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
dendrobium	Other	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Spp. in Primer (AHPA, 2013) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
dendrobium stem	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
shi hu	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
shih hu	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
tie pi shi hu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
tiepishihu	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
石斛	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
鐵皮石斛	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
铁皮石斛	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
黃花石斛	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
stem	fresh or dried stem	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
stem		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 8 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Dendrobium catenatum Lindl. Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 84 (1830), nom. rej. prop.
Dendrobium tosaense Makino J. Bot. 29: 383 (1891).
Callista stricklandiana (Rchb.f.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 655 (1891).
Dendrobium funiushanense T.B.Chao, Z.X.Chen & Z.K.Chen Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 12: 119 (1992).
Dendrobium pere-fauriei Hayata Icon. Pl. Formosan. 6: 70 (1916).
Dendrobium stricklandianum Rchb.f. Gard. Chron., n.s., 7: 749 (1877).
Dendrobium tosaense var. chingshuishanianum S.S.Ying J. Jap. Bot. 64: 151 (1989).
Dendrobium tosaense var. pere-fauriei (Hayata) Masam. J. Soc. Trop. Agric. 4: 196 (1933).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Dendrobium catenatum Lindl.	Medicinal Orchids of Asia (Teoh, 2016)
Dendrobium officinale	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Spp. in Primer (AHPA, 2013)
Dendrobium officinale K. Kimura & Migo	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Dendrobium officinale Kimura & Migo	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Dendrobium officinale Kimura et Mig	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Dendrobium officinale Kimura et Migo	GAP Prod. of TCM Herbs in China (Zhang et al., 2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Dendrobium officinalis Kitamura & Migo	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Dendrobium tosaense Makino	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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