Plant Details

Accepted name:: Ribes rubrum L. [Grossulariaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aka-suguri	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
common currant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cultivated currant	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
fusa-suguri	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
garden currant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
garnetberry	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
groseillier commun	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
groseillier rouge	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
groseillier à grappes	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
grosellero común	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
grosellero rojo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
hong cha biao zi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
jamni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kimokoliya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
r	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
rajae	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
red currant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
red garden currant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
redcurrant	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ribes rosso	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ribisel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ribisi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ribs	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
rot johannisbeere	Other	Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
röda vinbär	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
whitecurrant	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 44 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Ribes pendulum Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 355 (1796).
Grossularia rubra (L.) Scop. Fl. Carniol., ed. 2, 1: 167 (1771).
Ribes acerifolium K.Koch Dendrologie 1: 649 (1869), not validly publ.
Ribes acidum Ehrh. Beitr. Naturk. Verw. Wiss. 5: 161 (1790), nom. nud.
Ribes albescens Poit. & Turpin Pomol. Franç. 3: t. 175-177 (1846).
Ribes albicans Poit. & Turpin Pomol. Franç. 3: t. 167 (1846).
Ribes albovirens Poit. & Turpin Pomol. Franç. 3: t. 167 (1846).
Ribes auriculatum Poit. & Turpin Pomol. Franç. 3: t. 170 (1846).
Ribes baicalense Turcz. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 457 (1841), not validly publ.
Ribes carneum Poit. & Turpin Pomol. Franç. 3: t. 222 (1846).
Ribes domesticum Jancz. Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci. 130: 589 (1900).
Ribes fleischmannii Rchb. ex K.Koch Dendrologie 1: 657 (1869), not validly publ.
Ribes glabrum (Hedl.) Sennikov Fl. Vostochnoĭ Evropy 10: 238 (2001).
Ribes hladnickianum Freyer ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 457 (1841), not validly publ.
Ribes hortense Hedl. Bot. Not. 1901: 94 (1901), nom. superfl.
Ribes houghtonianum Jancz. Bull. Int. Acad. Sci. Cracovie 1: 296 (1901).
Ribes macrocarpum Jancz. Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci. 130: 589 (1900).
Ribes officinarum Dum.Cours. Bot. Cult., ed. 2, 5: 303 (1811).
Ribes racemosum Poit. & Turpin Pomol. Franç. 3: t. 221 (1846).
Ribes rubrum var. domesticum Wallr. Sched. Crit.: 106 (1822).
Ribes rubrum var. dulce Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 549 (1821 publ. 1822).
Ribes rubrum subsp. glabrum Hedl. Bot. Not. 1948: 46 (1948).
Ribes rubrum var. parvum Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 549 (1821 publ. 1822).
Ribes rubrum var. sativum Rchb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 1: 562 (1830).
Ribes rubrum subsp. sativum (Rchb.) Syme in J.E.Smith, Engl. Bot., ed. 3, 4: 42 (1865).
Ribes rubrum var. scandicum Jancz. Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 35(3): 289 (1907).
Ribes rubrum var. sylvestre (Lam.) Wallr. Sched. Crit.: 106 (1822).
Ribes rubrum var. variegatum Weston Bot. Univ. 1: 244 (1770).
Ribes rubrum var. virescens Regel Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1866(Suppl.): 35 (1867 publ. 1868).
Ribes rubrum subsp. vulgare O.Schwarz Mitt. Thüring. Bot. Ges., n.s., 1: 104 (1949).
Ribes sativum (Rchb.) A.Berger Techn. Bull. New York Agric. Exp. Sta., Geneva 109: 7 (1924).
Ribes sativum f. macrocarpum (Jancz.) Rehder Bibliogr. Cult. Trees: 212 (1949).
Ribes sativum var. variegatum (Weston) Rehder Man. Cult. Trees: 308 (1927).
Ribes sativum f. variegatum (Weston) Rehder Bibliogr. Cult. Trees: 211 (1949).
Ribes sibiricum K.Koch Dendrologie 1: 649 (1869), not validly publ.
Ribes smidtianum (Sow. ex Syme) Hedl. Bot. Not. 1901: 101 (1901).
Ribes sylvestre (Lam.) Mert. & W.D.J.Koch in J.C.Röhling, Deutschl. Fl., ed. 3, 2: 249 (1826), nom. illeg.
Ribes sylvestre subsp. hortense Hyl. Uppsala Univ. Årsskr. 7: 196 (1945), nom. superfl.
Ribes sylvestre var. smidtianum Sow. ex Syme Engl. Bot., ed. 3B(4): 44 (1865).
Ribes vinosum Dum.Cours. Bot. Cult. 3: 226 (1802).
Ribes vulgare Lam. Encycl. 3: 47 (1789), nom. superfl.
Ribes vulgare var. hortense Lam. Encycl. 3: 48 (1789), nom. superfl.
Ribes vulgare var. sylvestre Lam. Encycl. 3: 47 (1789).
Ribesium rubrum (L.) Medik. Philos. Bot. 1: 120 (1789).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Ribes pendulina	Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998)
Ribes rubrum	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Ribes rubrum L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Ribes rubrum Linnaeus	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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