Plant Details

Accepted name:: Picea mariana (Mill.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. [Pinaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
abies nigra	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
black spruce	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
double spruce	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 40 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Picea nigra (Castigl.) Link Handbuch 2: 478 (1841).
Abies denticulata Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 206 (1803).
Abies mariana Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 5 (1768).
Abies nigra (Castigl.) Du Roi Harbk. Baumz., ed. 2, 2: 182 (1800).
Abies nigra var. nana Jacques Ann. Fl. Pomone 5: 328 (1836), nom. nud.
Abies nigra var. pumila Knight ex Gordon & Glend. Pinetum: 8 (1858).
Peuce rubra Rich. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 16: 298 (1810), not validly publ.
Picea brevifolia Peck Spruces Adirondacks: 13 (1897).
Picea brevifolia var. semiprostrata Peck Spruces Adirondacks: 13 (1897).
Picea ericoides Bean Trees & Shrubs Brit. Isles 2: 160 (1914).
Picea mariana var. beissneri Rehder Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 24: 213 (1915).
Picea mariana f. beissneri (Rehder) Rehder Bibliogr. Cult. Trees: 25 (1949).
Picea mariana var. brevifolia (Peck) Rehder Rhodora 9: 109 (1907).
Picea mariana f. doumetii (Carrière) O.L.Lipa Dendrofl. URSR 1: 82 (1939).
Picea mariana f. empetroides Vict. & J.Rousseau Contr. Inst. Bot. Univ. Montréal 36: 12 (1940).
Picea mariana f. ericoides (Bean) Rehder J. Arnold Arbor. 1: 193 (1920).
Picea mariana var. fastigiata (Rehder) Rehder in L.H.Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 5: 2619 (1916).
Picea mariana f. fastigiata Rehder Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 24: 213 (1915).
Picea mariana f. fastigiata (Carrière) Rehder Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 24: 213 (1915 publ. 1916).
Picea mariana f. grisea Vict. Contr. Lab. Bot. Univ. Montréal 10: 16 (1927).
Picea mariana f. nana (Beissn.) Rehder Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 24: 214 (1915 publ. 1915).
Picea mariana var. pendula (Schwer.) Fitschen in L.Beissner, Handb. Nadelholzk., ed. 3: 249 (1930).
Picea mariana var. pendula-variegata (Hornibr.) Fitschen in L.Beissner, Handb. Nadelholzk., ed. 3: 251 (1930).
Picea mariana var. semiprostrata (Peck) Teeri Rhodora 71: 1 (1969).
Picea mariana f. semiprostrata (Peck) S.F.Blake Rhodora 15: 200 (1913).
Picea mariana f. squamea Vict. Contr. Lab. Bot. Univ. Montréal 10: 17 (1927).
Picea nigra var. brevifolia (Peck) Rehder in L.H.Bailey, Cycl. Amer. Hort. 3: 1334 (1901).
Picea nigra var. doumetii Carrière Traité Gén. Conif.: 242 (1855).
Picea nigra var. fastigiata Carrière Traité Gén. Conif.: 242 (1855).
Picea nigra var. nana Beissn. in H.Jaeger & L.Beissner, Ziergehölze Gärt. Parkanl., ed. 2: 441 (1884).
Picea nigra pendula Schwer. Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 12: 94 (1903).
Picea nigra var. pendula-variegata Hornibr. Dwarf Conifers: 124 (1923).
Picea nigra var. semiprostrata (Peck) Brainerd, L.R.Jones & Eggl. Rep. (Annual) Vermont Agric. Exp. Sta. 1900: 6 (1900).
Picea nigra var. virgata Rehder in L.H.Bailey, Cycl. Amer. Hort. 3: 1334 (1901).
Pinus canadensis var. nigra Castigl. Viagg. Stati Uniti 2: 315 (1790).
Pinus canadensis var. nigricans Weston Bot. Univ. 1: 211 (1770).
Pinus denticulata (Michx.) Muhl. Cat. Pl. Amer. Sept.: 89 (1813).
Pinus mariana (Mill.) Münchh. Hausvater 5(1): 224 (1770).
Pinus marylandica Antoine Coniferen: 88 (1841), not validly publ.
Pinus nigra Aiton Hort. Kew. 3: 370 (1789), nom. illeg.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Picea mariana	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Picea mariana (Mill.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Picea mariana (Miller) B.S.P.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998)
Picea mariana (P. Mill.) B.S.P.	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Picea mariana (P. Mill.) Britton Et Al.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Picea nigra Link.	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)

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