Plant Details

Accepted name:: Symplocos tinctoria (L.) L'Hér. [Symplocaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
common sweetleaf	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 6 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Eugenioides tinctorium (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 975 (1891).
Hopea tinctoria L. Mant. Pl. 1: 105 (1767).
Hypericum laurocerasifolium Jacq. Observ. Bot. 3: 4 (1768).
Protohopea tinctoria (L.) Miers J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 17: 289 (1879).
Symplocos tinctoria var. ashei Harb. J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 46: 219 (1931).
Symplocos tinctoria var. pygmaea Fernald Rhodora 43: 635 (1941).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Symplocos tinctoria (L.) L'Hér.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Symplocos tinctoria (L.) L’Hér.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

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