Plant Details

Accepted name:: Myrtus communis L. [Myrtaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 2

Myrtus communis subsp. communis

Myrtus communis subsp. tarentina (L.) Nyman

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aas	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. in Iraq (Al-Douri, 2000)
aasar	Other	Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
arrayán	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
as	Other	Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
asbiri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
baragasha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
barg-e-maurid	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
burg madar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cativam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chitti jama	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
clove myrtle	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
common myrtle	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
echte myrte	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
firangimethi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gandhamalati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hab-ul-as	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
habb-ul-aas	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
habb-ul-aas (murad)	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
habb-ul-aas muurad	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
hadas	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
hambalas	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hub-ul-as	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hubbul as	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
isferem	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ismar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kulinaval	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
manro	Other	Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010) Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
manu	Other	Indig. Uses of Pl. of Malakand, Pakistan (Habib-Ul-Hassan et al., 2015)
maurid	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mersin yapraği	Other	Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
mersinia	Other	Wild Edible Pls. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
mersiniá	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
mirsin	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mirto	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
moord	Other	Survey in Kohghiluyeh va Boyer Ahmad, Iran (Mosaddegh et al., 2012)
mourd	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
murad	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
murad (aas)	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muradvilayatimehndi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
murd	Other	Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
murid	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
murt	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
murtik	Other	Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
murukulu gida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
muurad	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
muurad-daan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
myrte	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
myrte commun	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
myrten	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
myrti aetheroleum	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
myrti folium	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
myrtia	Other	Herbal Market of Cyprus (Karousou & Deirmentzoglou, 2011) Wild Edible Pls. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
myrtle	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
myrtus communis	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
ral safaid	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rihane	Other	Wild Med. Pl. in M'Sila, Algeria (Boudjelal et al., 2013)
sadevam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
spanish myrtle	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
sutrasowa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
tevam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tevamamaram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tevarkon	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
true myrtle	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
tukhm-e-maurid	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
varq-e-maurid	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
varq-ul-as	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vilaayati mehndi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
waraq alas	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
wax myrtle	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
yas	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Med. Pl. in Iraq (Al-Douri, 2000)
μερσινιά	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
آس	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
سلاا قرو	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
مرسين‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
مورد	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
ᾱs	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
‫ريحان	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Aerial parts		Wild Med. Pl. in M'Sila, Algeria (Boudjelal et al., 2013)
Leaf		Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
Leaf, root, leaves, leaves		Survey in Kohghiluyeh va Boyer Ahmad, Iran (Mosaddegh et al., 2012)
Folium		Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
Leaf		Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Fruit		Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
fruit		Wild Edible Pls. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
fruits, leaves		Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009)
leaves		Herbal Market of Cyprus (Karousou & Deirmentzoglou, 2011)
leaf, fruit	essential oil	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
leaf, fruit	essential oil	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
Leaf		Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
Leaf		Med. Pl. in Iraq (Al-Douri, 2000)
Leaves		Indig. Uses of Pl. of Malakand, Pakistan (Habib-Ul-Hassan et al., 2015)
Fruit, leaves		Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010)
Leaves		Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
leaves		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
leaves, fruit		Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
leaf, fruit		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
leaf and terminal branchlets	essential oil	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Myrtus communis	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997) Med. Pl. in Russia & C Asia (Mamedov et al., 2005) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Myrtus communis L.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011) Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Herbal Market of Cyprus (Karousou & Deirmentzoglou, 2011) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indig. Uses of Pl. of Malakand, Pakistan (Habib-Ul-Hassan et al., 2015) Med. Herbs Israel (Said et al., 2002) Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013) Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in Iraq (Al-Douri, 2000) Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Med. Pl. in N Israel (Dafnia et al., 1984) Med. Pl. in the Med.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015) Survey in Kohghiluyeh va Boyer Ahmad, Iran (Mosaddegh et al., 2012) Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) Wild Edible Pls. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006) Wild Med. Pl. in M'Sila, Algeria (Boudjelal et al., 2013) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Myrtus communis Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Myttus communis L.	Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009)

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