Plant Details

Accepted name:: Pimenta racemosa var. racemosa [Myrtaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Pimenta racemosa (Mill.) J.W.Moore
Infraspecies:: 4

Pimenta racemosa var. grisea (Kiaersk.) Fosberg

Pimenta racemosa var. hispaniolensis (Urb.) Landrum

Pimenta racemosa var. ozua (Urb. & Ekman) Landrum

Pimenta racemosa var. terebinthina (Burret) Landrum

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bay oil	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
chinamulaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cinamulaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cinimilaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gandamenasu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gandumenasu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kapapcini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kappalmulaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
malayalamunchi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
malayalamunci	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maramenasu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
myrcia oil	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaves		Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
leaf	oil	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 29 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Amomis caryophyllata Krug & Urb. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 19: 573 (1894).
Pimenta acris (Sw.) Kostel. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 4: 1526 (1835).
Amomis acris (Sw.) O.Berg Linnaea 27: 417 (1856).
Amomis acris var. grandifolia O.Berg Linnaea 27: 418 (1856).
Amomis acris var. obtusata O.Berg Linnaea 27: 418 (1856).
Amomis acris var. parvifolia O.Berg Linnaea 27: 418 (1856).
Amomis oblongata O.Berg Linnaea 27: 421 (1856).
Amomis oblongata var. occidentalis O.Berg Handb. Pharm. Bot.: 340 (1855).
Amomis pimento O.Berg Linnaea 27: 418 (1856).
Amomis pimento var. jamaicensis O.Berg Linnaea 27: 419 (1856).
Amomis pimento var. surinamensis O.Berg Linnaea 27: 419 (1856).
Amomis pimentoides O.Berg Linnaea 27: 420 (1856).
Eugenia tabasco (Willd. ex Schltdl. & Cham.) G.Don Gen. Hist. 2: 866 (1832).
Myrcia acris (Sw.) DC. Prodr. 3: 243 (1828).
Myrcia pimentoides DC. Prodr. 3: 243 (1828).
Myrtus acris Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.: 79 (1788).
Myrtus caryophyllata Jacq. Observ. Bot. 2: 1 (1767), nom. illeg.
Myrtus citrifolia Poir. in J.B.A.P.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 4: 410 (1798).
Myrtus pimentoides (DC.) T.Nees in M.F.Weihe & al., Pl. Offic., Suppl.: t. 89 (1833).
Myrtus tabasco Willd. ex Schltdl. & Cham. Linnaea 5: 559 (1830).
Pimenta acris var. pimentoides (DC.) Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. I.: 241 (1860).
Pimenta acuminata Bello Anales Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 10: 270 (1881).
Pimenta citrifolia (Poir.) Kostel. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 4: 1525 (1835).
Pimenta dioica var. tabasco (Willd. ex Schltdl. & Cham.) Standl. Ceiba 3: 172 (1953).
Pimenta officinalis var. tabasco (Willd. ex Schltdl. & Cham.) O.Berg Linnaea 27: 425 (1856).
Pimenta pimento Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. I.: 241 (1860).
Pimenta racemosa subsp. occidentalis Urquiola Revista Jard. Bot. Nac. Univ. Habana 32-33: 8 (2011-2012 publ. 2014), herbarium where type conserved not specified.
Pimenta tabasco (Willd. ex Schltdl. & Cham.) Lundell Wrightia 2: 58 (1960).
Pimentus cotinifolia Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 105 (1838).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Amomis caryophyllata	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Pimenta acris	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Pimenta acris (Sw.) Kostel.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Pimenta acris Kostel	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
Pimenta acris Kostel.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Pimenta acris Wight	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Pimenta racemosa var. racemosa (P. Mill.) J. W. Moore	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

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