Plant Details

Accepted name:: Neolitsea zeylanica (Nees & T.Nees) Merr. [Lauraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
akupatrikam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
belori	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
beluri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bodeda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
buroyida	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
medang pasir	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
medang seluang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
medang serai	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
teja betina	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
teja pasir	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
varanam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vayana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vayina	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
南亚新木姜	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
roots		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 14 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Litsea zeylanica Nees & T.Nees Cinnam. Disp.: 58 (1823).
Laurus camphora Thunb. ex Blume Mus. Bot. 1: 346 (1851).
Laurus involucrata Lam. Encycl. 3: 445 (1792), nom. illeg.
Laurus nitida B.Heyne ex Wall. Numer. List: n.° 2582 B (1830), not validly publ.
Laurus verticillata Royen ex Blume Mus. Bot. 1: 346 (1851).
Litsea ceylanica Nees & T.Nees Syst. Laur.: 626 (1836), nom. illeg.
Litsea pseudoculitlawan (Nees) Nees Syst. Laur.: 632 (1836).
Malapoenna involucrata Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 571 (1891).
Malapoenna pseudoculitlawan (Nees) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 573 (1891).
Neolitsea foliolosa A.M.Cowan & Cowan Trees N. Bengal: 111 (1929).
Neolitsea involucrata (Kuntze) Alston Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Peradeniya) 11: 208 (1929).
Tetradenia pseudoculitlawan Nees Allg. Gartenzeitung 1: 373 (1833).
Tetradenia zeylanica (Nees & T.Nees) Nees in N.Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 64 (1831).
Tetranthera foliosa Wall. Numer. List: n.° 2563 (1830), not validly publ.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Litsea zeylanica	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Litsea zeylanica Nees	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Litsea zeylanica Nees & T. Nees	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Neolitsea zaylanica Merill	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Neolitsea zeylancia (Nees) Merr.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Neolitsea zeylanica (Nees & T. Nees) Merr.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Neolitsea zeylanica (Nees & T.Nees) Merr.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Neolitsea zeylanica (Nees) Merr.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Neolitsea zeylanica Merr.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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