| Name | Saussurea japonica (Thunberg) de Candolle |
| Authorship | (Thunberg) de Candolle |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Saussurea |
| Contains | Saussurea japonica var. pteroclada (T. Nakai, M. Honda & M. Kitagawa) Raab-Straube |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:242335-1 |
| Holdings | 17 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Saussurea japonica (Thunberg) de Candolle |
| Identification made in | [no date] (8), 2008 (2), 2009 (7) |