Plant Details

Accepted name:: Betula pubescens Ehrh. [Betulaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 6

Betula pubescens var. fragrans Ashburner & McAll.

Betula pubescens var. golitsinii (V.N.Vassil.) Tzvelev

Betula pubescens nothovar. kusmisscheffii (Regel) Gürke

Betula pubescens var. litwinowii (Doluch.) Ashburner & McAll.

Betula pubescens var. pumila (G.Zanoni ex Murray) Govaerts

Betula pubescens var. pubescens

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
betulae folium	Pharmaceutical	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994) EMA Com. Monog.: Betula spp., fol. (2006) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)
betulla pubescente	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
birch	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
birch leaf	Other	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) EMA Com. Monog.: Betula spp., fol. (2006) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)
birkenblätter	Other	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)
bouleau blanc	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
downy birch	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
gemmae betulae	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014)
glasbjörk	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
white birch	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaf		British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
stem bark, leaf		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
folium		EMA Com. Monog.: Betula spp., fol. (2006)
leaf	whole or fragmented dried leaves	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008)
leaf	whole or fragmented dried leaf	European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007)
leaf	Whole or fragmented, dried leaves	European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 5 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Betula alba lusus macrophylla Regel Nouv. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 13(2): 82 (1861).
Betula alba f. pubescens (Ehrh.) Bolzon Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 21: 176 (1914), nom. illeg.
Betula alba subsp. pubescens (Ehrh.) Regel Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 38(II): 402 (1865), nom. illeg.
Betula alba var. pubescens (Ehrh.) Hartm. Handb. Skand. Fl.: 341 (1820).
Betula pubescens var. typica H.J.P.Winkl. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 61: 81 (1904), not validly publ.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Betula pubescens	Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Betula pubescens Ehrh.	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) EMA Com. Monog.: Betula spp., fol. (2006) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Betula pubescens Ehrhart	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Betulae pubescens Ehrhart	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)

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