Plant Details

Accepted name:: Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Spreng. [Thymelaeaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
agarwood	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
aloewood	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
aquilaria	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
aquilariae lignum resinatum	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
ar kya	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
ar skya	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
bai mu xiang	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
baimuxiang	Other	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
chen siang	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
chen xiang	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
chenxiang	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
chinese agarwood	Other	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Spp. in Primer (AHPA, 2013) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
chinese eaglewood	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
chinese eaglewood wood	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
chénxiāng	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
lignum aquilariae resinatum	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
ཨར་སྐྱ།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
土沉香	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
沉香	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
沉香曲	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
白木香	Other	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
wood	resin containing wood	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
wood	wood containing resin	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Stem		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
resin containing wood	resin containing wood	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
resinous heartwood		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
wood, resin		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Wood		Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
wood	resin containing wood	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 7 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Aquilaria grandiflora Benth. Fl. Hongk.: 297 (1861).
Ophispermum sinense Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 281 (1790).
Agallochum grandiflorum (Benth.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 283 (1891).
Agallochum sinense (Lour.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 283 (1891).
Aquilaria chinensis Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 2: 356 (1825), orth. var.
Aquilaria malaccensis Benth. Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5: 195 (1853), nom. illeg.
Aquilaria ophispermum Poir. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 18: 161 (1821), nom. superfl.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Aquilaria grandiflora	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Aquilaria grandiflora Benth.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Aquilaria sinensis	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Spp. in Primer (AHPA, 2013) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Merr.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Spreng.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Aquilaria sinensis Gilg	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Aquilaria sinensis Gily.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Ophispermum sinense Lour.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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