Plant Details

Accepted name:: Rhus ovata S.Watson [Anacardiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
mountain laurel	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
sugar bush	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
sugar sumac	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
sumac	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 4 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Neostyphonia ovata (S.Watson) Abrams Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 6: 403 (1910).
Rhus ovata var. traskiae F.A.Barkley Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 24: 368 (1937).
Schmaltzia ovata (S.Watson) F.A.Barkley Amer. Midl. Naturalist 24: 651 (1940).
Schmaltzia ovata var. traskiae (F.A.Barkley) F.A.Barkley Amer. Midl. Naturalist 24: 652 (1940).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Neostyphonia ovata (S.Watson)Abrams	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Rhus ovata S. Watson	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Rhus ovata S.Wats.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Rhus ovata S.Watson	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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