Plant Details

Accepted name:: Quercus muehlenbergii Engelm. [Fagaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

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

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

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

Quercus acuminata (Michx.) Sarg. Gard. & Forest 8: 93 (1895), nom. illeg.
Quercus acuminata var. alexanderi Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 6: 206 (1904).
Quercus alexanderi Britton Man. Fl. N. States: 336 (1901).
Quercus brayi Small Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 28: 358 (1901).
Quercus castanea Muhl. Neue Schriften Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 3: 396 (1801), nom. illeg.
Quercus castanea var. macrophylla Hampton Rep. (Annual) Ohio State Forest. Bur. 1: 195 (1886).
Quercus muehlenbergii f. alexanderi (Britton) Trel. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 20: 111 (1924).
Quercus muehlenbergii var. alexanderi (Britton) Campb. Ohio J. Sci. 34: 422 (1934), nom. illeg.
Quercus muehlenbergii var. alexanderi (Farw.) Farw. Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 3: 93 (1924).
Quercus muehlenbergii var. brayi (Small) Sarg. Bot. Gaz. 65: 442 (1918).
Quercus prinoides var. acuminata (Michx.) Gleason Phytologia 4: 23 (1952).
Quercus prinoides f. alexanderi (Britton) Steyerm. Rhodora 62: 130 (1960).
Quercus prinus var. acuminata Michx. Hist. Chênes Amér. 5(3): 8 (1801).
Quercus rubra var. muehlenbergii (Engelm.) Wenz. Jahrb. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 3: 186 (1884).
Quercus sentenelensis C.H.Mull. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 18: 849 (1937).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Quercus muehlenbergii Engelm.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Quercus muehlenbergii Englem.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

The following online resources may contain further information about this plant. Please click on any link to search that resource. You may search using the accepted name alone OR using the accepted name and all of its synonyms simultaneously.

Search using just the accepted name

NCBI — (Including Pubmed & GenBank)

— Europe PubMed Central

Google Images

Google Scholar

Encyclopedia of Life

Search using all scientific names used for this plant:

NCBI — (Including Pubmed & GenBank)

— Europe PubMed Central

Google Images