Plant Details

Accepted name:: Liquidambar styraciflua L. [Altingiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alligator-wood	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ambraträd	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
american red gum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
american storax	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
american-storax	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
amerikanischer amberbaum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bilsted	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
buluchka’an	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
gum tree	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ikob	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
kirambaro	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
liquidambar	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
liquidambra d'america	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
liquidanbar	Other	Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016)
ocotzoquahuitl	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
ocozol	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
okotsot	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
red gum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
red-gum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
satin walnut	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
satin-walnut	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
silhaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
star-leaved gum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
storax	Other	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
sweet gum	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sweet-gum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
κάπνισμα	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
κάπνισμα του αγίου νεοφύτου	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
ξύλον τ‘ αφέντι	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
trunk	balsam obtained from the trunk	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
resin, bark		Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
leaves, bark		Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
trunk balsam	balsam obtained from the trunk	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
trunk	balsam	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008)
trunk	balsam obtained from the trunk	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013)

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

Liquidambar macrophylla Oerst. Amér. Centr.: 16 (1863).
Liquidambar barbata Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 4: 332 (1812).
Liquidambar gummifera Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 393 (1796), nom. superfl.
Liquidambar styraciflua var. macrophylla Nied. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(2a): 124 (1891).
Liquidambar styraciflua var. mexicana Oerst. Amér. Centr.: 16 (1863).
Liquidambar styraciflua f. pendula Rehder J. Arnold Arbor. 20: 93 (1939).
Liquidambar styraciflua f. rotundiloba Rehder J. Arnold Arbor. 12: 70 (1931).
Liquidambar tuberculata Silba J. Int. Conifer Preserv. Soc. 22: 27 (2015).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Liquidambar macrophylla Oersted	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
Liquidambar styraciflua	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Liquidambar styraciflua L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Liquidambar styraciflua Linne	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008)
Liquidambar styraciflua Linné	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
Liquidambar styraciﬂua L.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017)

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