Plant Details

Accepted name:: Callitropsis nootkatensis (D.Don) Oerst. [Cupressaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alaska cedar	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
cedar	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 25 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (D.Don) Spach Hist. Nat. Vég. 11: 333 (1841).
Thuja excelsa Bong. Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, Sér. 6, Sci. Math. 2: 164 (1832).
Chamaecyparis excelsa Fisch. ex Carrière Traité Gén. Conif., ed. 2: 127 (1867).
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis f. compacta (Gordon) Rehder Bibliogr. Cult. Trees: 51 (1949).
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis var. glabra Van Geert in C.J.É.Morren & A.de Vos, Ind. Bibl. Hort. Belg.: 34 (1887), nom. nud.
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis var. glauca Regel Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1855: 18 (1855).
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis f. glauca (Regel) Rehder Bibliogr. Cult. Trees: 51 (1949).
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis f. lutea (Webster) Rehder Bibliogr. Cult. Trees: 51 (1949).
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis pendens Sudw. Bull. Div. Forest. U.S.D.A. 13: 81 (1897).
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis var. pendula G.Nicholson Ill. Dict. Gard. 1: 304 (1884).
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis f. pendula (G.Nicholson) Beissn. Handb. Conif.: 13 (1887).
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis var. variegata Van Houtte in C.J.É.Morren & A.de Vos, Ind. Bibl. Hort. Belg.: 34 (1887), nom. nud.
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis f. viridis-pendula Beissn. Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 19: 140 (1910).
Chamaecyparis nutkaensis Lindl. & Gordon J. Hort. Soc. London 5: 207 (1850), orth. var.
Cupressus americana Trautv. Pl. Imag. Descr. Fl. Russ.: 12 (1844).
Cupressus nootkatensis D.Don in A.B.Lambert, Descr. Pinus 2: 18 (1824).
Cupressus nootkatensis var. compacta Gordon Pinetum, ed. 2: 425 (1875).
Cupressus nootkatensis var. glauca (Regel) G.Kirchn. in E.A.Petzold & G.Kirchner, Arbor. Muscav.: 711 (1864).
Cupressus nootkatensis var. lutea Webster Hardy Conif. Trees: 44 (1896).
Cupressus nootkatensis var. pendula (G.Nicholson) Webster Hardy Conif. Trees: 44 (1896).
Cupressus nutkatensis Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 165 (1838), orth. var.
Thujopsis borealis Carrière Traité Gén. Conif.: 113 (1855).
Thujopsis cupressoides Carrière in H.A.Jacques & F.Hérincq, Man. Gén. Pl. 4: 324 (1865).
Thujopsis tchugatskoyae Carrière Traité Gén. Conif.: 113 (1855).
Xanthocyparis nootkatensis (D.Don) Farjon & D.K.Harder Novon 12: 188 (2002).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Callitropsis nootkatensis (D.Don) Oerst.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (D. Don) Spach	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Thuja excelsa	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Thuja excelsa Bong.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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