Plant Details

Accepted name:: Castanea mollissima Blume [Fagaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
chinese chestnut	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
chinese hairy chestnut	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
jiā lì	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lì	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lì yè	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
máo bǎn lì	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
méi lì	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pokok berangan	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
家栗	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
栗	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
栗叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
栗壳	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
栗子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
栗树根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
栗树皮	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
栗毛球	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
栗花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
栗荴	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
毛板栗	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
玫栗	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
leaf, frond		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Castanea bungeana Blume Mus. Bot. 1: 284 (1851).
Castanea duclouxii Dode Bull. Soc. Dendrol. France 1908: 150 (1908).
Castanea formosana (Hayata) Hayata Icon. Pl. Formosan. 6(Suppl.): 71 (1917).
Castanea hupehensis Dode Bull. Soc. Dendrol. France 1908: 151 (1908).
Castanea mollissima var. pendula X.Y.Zhou & Z.D.Zhou J. Jiangxi Agric. Univ. 1982(1): 7 (1982).
Castanea sativa var. bungeana (Blume) Pamp. Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 17: 250 (1910).
Castanea sativa var. formosana Hayata J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 30: 304 (1911).
Castanea sativa var. intermedia Pamp. Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 22: 275 (1915).
Castanea sativa var. mollissima (Blume) Pamp. Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 17: 250 (1910).
Castanea sinensis Perr. Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 3: 108 (1825), nom. nud.
Castanea vulgaris var. yunnanensis Fr. J. Bot. 20: 196 (1899).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Castanae molissima	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Castanea bungeana Bl.	Checklist of Korean Cult. Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986)
Castanea mollissima	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Castanea mollissima Bl.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Castanea mollissima Blume	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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