Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dryobalanops aromatica C.F.Gaertn. [Dipterocarpaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
baraas	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
baraas kapoor	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
baros	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
baros camphor	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
barus	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
barus camphor	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
bhimasenakarpoora	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bhimseni kapoor	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
bing pian	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
bomeolum	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
bornean camphor wood	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
borneo	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
borneo camphor	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
borneo camphor tree	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
borneol	Other	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
borneolum	Pharmaceutical	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
camphor	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
camphor de borneo	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
camphora	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
ch'ing ping p'ien	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
chin chiao nao	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
dryobalanops	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
dryobalanops aromatica whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
himamaluka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jié bù luó xiāng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kapor barus	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kapur	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kapur bukit	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kapur peringii	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kapur ranggi	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kapurträd	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
kapurun	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
lóng nǎo xiāng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lóng nǎo xiāng zǐ	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
malay camphor	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
mei hua p'ien	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
mei pian	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
mi nao	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
ni ping p'ien	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
p'o lu hsiang	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
paccai-k-karpuram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ping p'ien	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
pokok kapur	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pokok kapur barus	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pokok kapur burus	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
ruinoho	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
shel ga bur	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
shel ga pur	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
su nao	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
sumatra camphor	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
tree-camphor	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
ts'ang lung nao	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
ཤེལ་ག་པུར།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
冰片	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
冰片：梅片	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
梅片	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
梅花冰片	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
物龍腦香樹	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021)
羯布罗香	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
龙脑膏香	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
龙脑香	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
龙脑香子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
crystal	crystal	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
seed		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
resins	crystal	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
resins	crystal	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021)
stem	resin	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
Exudate		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 12 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Dipterocarpus camphorus (Colebr.) Mart. Consp. Regn. Veg.: 60 (1835).
Dryobalanops camphora Colebr. Asiat. Res. 12: 535 (1816).
Dryobalanops sumatrensis (J.F.Gmel.) Kosterm. Blumea 33: 346 (1988).
Dipterocarpus dryobalanops Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 518 (1840).
Dipterocarpus teres Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 618 (1840), not validly publ.
Dryobalanops junghuhnii Becc. Nelle Forest. Borneo: 554 (1902).
Dryobalanops vriesii Becc. Nelle Forest. Borneo: 554 (1902).
Laurus sumatrensis J.F.Gmel. Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis].: 650 (1791), nom. utique rej.
Pterigium teres Corrêa Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 10: 159 (1807).
Shorea camphorifera Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 2: 616 (1832).
Shorea costata J.Presl in F.Berchtold & J.S.Presl, Přir. Rostlin Aneb. Rostl. 2: 66 (1825).
Vatica camphorifera (Roxb.) Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calcutt.: 126 (1845).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Dipterocarpus camphora	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Drybalanops aromatica	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Dryobalanops aromatica	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Dryobalanops aromatica C. F. Gaertn.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Dryobalanops aromatica C.F. Gaertn	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017)
Dryobalanops aromatica C.F. Gaertn.	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
Dryobalanops aromatica C.F.Gaertn.	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Dryobalanops aromatica GAERTN.F.	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
Dryobalanops aromatica Gaertn.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024)
Dryobalanops aromatica Gaertn. f.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Dryobalanops aromatica Gaertn.f.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Dryobalanops aromatica Gaertner	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Dryobalanops aromatica Gaertner f.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Dryobalanops camphora	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Dryobalanops camphora Colebr.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Dryobalanops sumatrensis (J. F. Gmelin) Kosterm.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Dryobalanops sumatrensis (J.F.Gmel.) Kosterm	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
Dryobalanops sumatrensis (J.F.Gmel.) Kosterm.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
Dryobalanopsaromatica Gwaertn. f.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Dtyobalanops aromatia Gaeth. f.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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