蔾

It refers to a plant term and is also recorded as a surname. The plant term appears in the Zhouyi, a Chinese classic known in English as the Book of Changes. The Yupian, an old Chinese dictionary, defines 蔾 as 蒺蔾; later references also mention 蔾蘆, a medicinal-herb term. A study comparing versions of one text found 蔾 in a version carved in stone during the Tang period and 藜 in other copies. The plant sense remains while the written form varies across texts.