Plant Details

Accepted name:: Styrax paralleloneurus Perkins [Styracaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
benjoim	Other	Farmacopeia Brasileira, 5th edn. (Anvisa, 2010) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
benjoim de siam	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
benzoe sumatranus	Pharmaceutical	Farmacopeia Brasileira, 5th edn. (Anvisa, 2010)
benzoin	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
benzoin tree	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
gum benjamin-tree	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
haminjon toba	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
kemenyan	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sumatra benzoin	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
sumatra benzointree	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
	balsamic resin	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
resin	balsamic resin	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
	resin	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008)
	vegetal drug, tincture, resin	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
trunk	balsamic resin	Farmacopeia Brasileira, 5th edn. (Anvisa, 2010)
	balsamic resin	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 3 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Styrax siamensis Rordorf Schweiz. Apotheker Zeitung 1916: 585 (1916).
Styrax sumatranus J.J.Sm. Tectona 10: 205 (1917).
Styrax paralleloneurus f. inutilis Steenis Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 12: 243 (1932).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Styrax paralleloneuron Perkins	Farmacopeia Brasileira, 5th edn. (Anvisa, 2010)
Styrax paralleloneurum Perk.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998)
Styrax paralleloneurum Perkins	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Styrax paralleloneurus	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Styrax paralleloneurus Perkins	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Styrax siamense Rodorf	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
Styrax sumatrana	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Styrax sumatranus Smith	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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