Plant Details

Accepted name:: Prunus mahaleb L. [Rosaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 2

Prunus mahaleb subsp. cupaniana (Guss.) Arcang.

Prunus mahaleb subsp. mahaleb

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
decorticated kernels of mahaleb cherries	Other	ISO Catalogue (2009)
gandha-priyangu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
gandhapriyangu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ghaulaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
habb-ol-mahlab	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
habb-ul-mihlab	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
mahaleb	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mahaleb cherry	Other	ISO Catalogue (2009) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
mahalib	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mahlep	Other	Med. Pl. in E Black Sea Region of Turkey (Toksoy et al., 2010)
mahlib	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
meǐhleb	Other	Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
mhallab	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
paiwand-i-miryam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
perfumed cherry	Other	Israeli Trad. Med. (Lev, 2006) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
peyvand-e-maryam	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
priyangu	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
priyunger	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
st lucie cherry	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
بلحم	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
حبّ المحلب	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
پیوند مریم	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
‫محلب‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Seed		Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
Semen		Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
Seed		Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
Seed		Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Seed		Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
seed		Israeli Trad. Med. (Lev, 2006)
seed		Med. Pl. in E Black Sea Region of Turkey (Toksoy et al., 2010)
kernel	oil	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
kernel		ISO Catalogue (2009)
Fruit		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 8 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Cerasus mahaleb (L.) Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: Cerasus n.° 4 (1768).
Mahaleb vulgaris Takht. Fl. Armen. 3: 324 (1958).
Padellus mahaleb (L.) Vassilcz. Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 10: 185 (1973).
Padus mahaleb (L.) Borkh. Arch. Bot. (Leipzig) 1(2): 38 (1797).
Padus mahaleb var. typica (Asch. & Graebn.) Buia in T.Săvulescu, Fl. Republ. Popul. Române 4: 880 (1956), not validly publ.
Prunus mahaleb proles typica Asch. & Graebn. Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 6(2): 156 (1906), not validly publ.
Prunus mahaleb var. typica Fiori in A.Fiori & al., Fl. Anal. Italia 1: 561 (1898), not validly publ.
Prunus mahaleb subsp. typica (Asch. & Graebn.) Pénzes Bot. Közlem. 47: 289 (1958), not validly publ.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cerasus mahaleb	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Cerasus mahalep	Med. Pl. in E Black Sea Region of Turkey (Toksoy et al., 2010)
Prunus mahaleb	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
Prunus mahaleb L.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Israeli Trad. Med. (Lev, 2006) Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Prunus mahaleb Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Prunus mahaleb Linnaeus	ISO Catalogue (2009)

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