Plant Details

Accepted name:: Litchi chinensis subsp. chinensis [Sapindaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Litchi chinensis Sonn.
Infraspecies:: 2

Litchi chinensis subsp. javensis Leenh.

Litchi chinensis subsp. philippinensis (Radlk.) Leenh.

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
buah lengkeng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kelengkeng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lichi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
flowers, bark, roots, leaves, seeds		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 15 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Nephelium lit-chi Cambess. Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 18: 30 (1829).
Nephelium litchi Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 191 (1841).
Corvinia litschi Stadtm. ex Willemet Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 18: 28 (1796).
Euphoria litchi Juss. ex Desf. Tabl. École Bot.: 135 (1804), nom. illeg.
Euphoria punicea Lam. Encycl. 3: 573 (1792).
Euphoria sinensis J.F.Gmel. Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis].: 611 (1791).
Laetji chinensis Osbeck ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 1: 460 (1821), not validly publ.
Litchi chinensis var. euspontanea H.H.Hsue J. S. China Agric. Univ. 4(2): 33 (1983).
Litchi sinensis J.F.Gmel. Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis].: 635 (1791).
Nephelium dimocarpus Hiern in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 1: 688 (1875).
Nephelium duriocarpum T.Anderson ex Hiern in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 1: 688 (1875), not validly publ.
Sapindus edulis Aiton Hort. Kew. 2: 36 (1789).
Scytalia litchi Roxb. in A.Beatson, Tracts St. Helena: 322 (1816).
Scytalia sinensis J.F.Gmel. Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis].: 612 (1791), orth. var.
Scytalia squamosa Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 2: 385 (1812).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Nephelium lit-chi	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Nephelium litchi	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Nephelium litchi Camb.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Nephelium litchi Cambess.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015)

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