Plant Details

Accepted name:: Vernicia cordata (Thunb.) Airy Shaw [Euphorbiaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
hu tzu t'ung	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
vernicia cordata whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
ying tzu t'ung	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
yu t'ung	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 9 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Aleurites cordatus (Thunb.) R.Br. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 49 (1840).
Dryandra cordata Thunb. Nov. Gen. Pl. 3: 60 (1783).
Aleurites japonicus Blume Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 4: 120 (1869).
Aleurites vernicifluus Baill. Hist. Pl. 5: 116 (1874).
Camerium cordatum (Thunb.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 595 (1891).
Dryandra verrucosa Royle Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts.: 328, 452 (1836).
Elaeococca cordata (Thunb.) A.Juss. Euphorb. Gen.: 38 (1824).
Elaeococca vernicia A.Juss. ex Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 3: 884 (1826), nom. illeg.
Elaeococca verrucosa A.Juss. ex Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 3: 884 (1826).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Aleurites cordata	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Aleurites cordata (Thunb.) R.Br. ex Steud.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998)
Aleurites cordata R. Br.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Dryandra cordata	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
Vernicia cordata (Thunb.) Airy Shaw	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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