Plant Details

Accepted name:: Cornus alba L. [Cornaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
红瑞木	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
红瑞木果	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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

Kew's taxonomic resources include 33 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Swida alba (L.) Opiz Seznam: 94 (1852).
Cornus alba var. albomarginata Burv. Bull. Arboric. 1874: 27 (1874).
Cornus alba var. argenteomarginata Rehder in L.H.Bailey, Cycl. Amer. Hort. 1: 378 (1900).
Cornus alba f. argenteomarginata (Rehder) Schelle in L.Beissner, E.Schelle & H.Zabel, Handb. Laubholzben.: 366 (1903).
Cornus alba f. gouchaultii (Carrière) Rehder Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 24: 225 (1915 publ. 1916).
Cornus alba var. gouchaultii (Carrière) Rehder in L.H.Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 2: 853 (1914).
Cornus alba var. kesselringii (E.Wolf) Rehder in L.H.Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 2: 853 (1914).
Cornus alba var. marginata G.Paul J. Hort. Cottage Gard., ser. 2, 27: 163 (1874).
Cornus alba f. rosenthalii Schwer. Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 5: 77 (1896).
Cornus alba var. rutokensis Miyabe & T.Miyake Fl. Saghalin: 205 (1915).
Cornus alba f. sibirica (Lodd. ex Loudon) Geerinck Taxonomania 1: 8 (2001).
Cornus alba var. sibirica Lodd. ex Loudon Arbor. Frutic. Brit. 2: 1012 (1838).
Cornus alba f. spaethii (Späth) Schelle in L.Beissner, E.Schelle & H.Zabel, Handb. Laubholzben.: 366 (1903).
Cornus alba var. spaethii Späth Nursery Cat. (Späth) 59: 2 (1884).
Cornus alba subsp. tatarica (Mill.) Wangerin in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 229: 55 (1910).
Cornus dichotoma Raf. Alsogr. Amer.: 60 (1838).
Cornus hessei Koehne Gartenflora 1899: 340 (1899).
Cornus pumila Koehne Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 1903: 46 (1903).
Cornus purpurea Tausch Flora 21: 781 (1838).
Cornus sibirica (Lodd. ex Loudon) Loudon Gard. Mag. & Reg. Rural Domest. Improv. 17: 395 (1841).
Cornus sibirica var. aurea-spaethii Pynaert Nursery Cat. (Éd. Pynaert - Van Geert) 1893-1894: 10 (1893).
Cornus sibirica var. gouchaultii Carrière Rev. Hort. (Paris) 60: 519 (1888).
Cornus sibirica var. kesselringii E.Wolf Izv. Imp. Lesn. Inst. 15: 233 (1907).
Cornus spaethii G.Nicholson Hand-List Trees Shrubs 1(Polypet.): 251 (1894), not validly publ.
Cornus subumbellata Komatsu Icon. Pl. Koisikav. 2: 57 (1914).
Cornus tatarica Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 7 (1768).
Cornus tatarica var. sibirica (Lodd. ex Loudon) Koehne Deut. Dendrol.: 436 (1893).
Swida alba var. argenteomarginata (Rehder) Moldenke Phytologia 41: 10 (1978).
Swida alba var. sibirica (Lodd. ex Loudon) P.D.Sell Fl. Great Britain Ireland 3: 518 (2009).
Swida hessei (Koehne) Soják Novit. Bot. Delect. Seminum Horti Bot. Univ. Carol. Prag. 1960: 10 (1960).
Swida pumila (Koehne) Soják Novit. Bot. Delect. Seminum Horti Bot. Univ. Carol. Prag. 1960: 11 (1960).
Swida subumbellata (Komatsu) Holub Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 2: 427 (1967).
Thelycrania alba (L.) Pojark. Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 12: 172 (1950).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cornus alba L.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Swida alba Opiz	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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