Plant Details

Accepted name:: Myrica cerifera L. [Myricaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ahuaxochitl	Other	Med. Pl. from Tlanchinol, Mexico (Andrade-Cetto, 2009)
arbol de cera	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
arbre à cire	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
arbre à suif	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
arrayán	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
barberry	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bayberry	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
berry wax	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
candle berry	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
candleberry	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
candleberry bark	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
cera vegetal	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
corteccia	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
fallow shrub	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
louro-bravo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mirika	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
mum ag	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
myrica	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
myrica cerifera	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
myrtle	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
southern bayberry	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
southern wax myrtle	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
southern wax-myrtle	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tallow shrub	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
vaxpors	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
wachsbeerbaum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
wachsmyrte	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
wax myrtle	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
wax myrtle bark	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
wax-myrtle	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
waxberry	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
waxmyrtle	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Root bark		Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
aerial parts, fruit		Med. Pl. from Tlanchinol, Mexico (Andrade-Cetto, 2009)
root		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 28 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Morella cerifera (L.) Small Fl. S.E. U.S.: 337 (1903).
Myrica mexicana Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol.: 1011 (1809).
Myrica microcarpa Benth. Pl. Hartw.: 266 (1846).
Myrica xalapensis Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 2: 16 (1817).
Cerophora angustifolia Raf. Alsogr. Amer.: 11 (1838).
Cerophora inodora Raf. Alsogr. Amer.: 11 (1838).
Cerophora lanceolata Raf. Alsogr. Amer.: 11 (1838).
Cerophora spicans Raf. Alsogr. Amer.: 12 (1838).
Cerothamnus cerifer (L.) Small Fl. Miami: 61 (1913).
Lacistema alterum Spreng. Neue Entdeck. Pflanzenk. 3: 20 (1822).
Lacistema berteroanum Schult. Mant. 1: 66 (1822).
Morella domingana (C.DC.) Carlquist Aliso 21: 8 (2002).
Myrica altera C.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(2): 595 (1868).
Myrica apiculata Urb. & Ekman Ark. Bot. 22A(8): 13 (1929), non. Saporta (1868), fossil name.
Myrica cerifera var. angustifolia Aiton Hort. Kew. 3: 396 (1789).
Myrica cerifera var. arborescens Castigl. Viagg. Stati Uniti 2: 302 (1790).
Myrica cerifera var. arborescens Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 228 (1803), nom. illeg.
Myrica cerifera var. dubia A.Chev. Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Math. Cherbourg 32: 265 (1901).
Myrica domingana C.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(2): 154 (1864).
Myrica jamaicensis R.A.Howard & Proctor J. Arnold Arbor. 39: 104 (1958).
Myrica mexicana var. fastuosa A.Chev. Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Math. Cherbourg 32: 280 (1901).
Myrica mexicana var. subglabra A.Chev. Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Math. Cherbourg 32: 280 (1901).
Myrica microcarpa var. angustifolia C.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(2): 149 (1864).
Myrica microstachya Krug & Urb. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 15: 361 (1892).
Myrica polycarpa M.Martens & Galeotti Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 10(2): 134 (1843).
Myrica reticulata Krug & Urb. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 15: 360 (1892).
Myrica verrucosa Raf. Alsogr. Amer.: 9 (1838).
Pimecaria odorata Raf. Alsogr. Amer.: 64 (1838).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Morella cerifera (L.) Sm.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Morella cerifera (L.) Small	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Morella cerifera (Linnaeus) Small	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Morella cerifera L.	Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016)
Myrica cerifera	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Myrica cerifera (L.) Small	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Myrica cerifera L.	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. from Tlanchinol, Mexico (Andrade-Cetto, 2009) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Myrica mexicana	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Myrica mexicana Willd.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Myrica microcarpa	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Myrica xalapensis H.B.K.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Myrica xalapensis Kunth	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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