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| Glycyrrhiza glabra | |
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| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
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| (unranked): | Inverted repeat-lacking clade |
| Genus: | Glycyrrhiza L. |
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Glycyrrhiza echinata Fruits and Seeds - MHNT
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Plant as used in Chinese herbology (crude medicine)
Glycyrrhiza is a genus of about 20 accepted species in the legume family (Fabaceae), with a subcosmopolitan distribution in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.[1]
The genus is best known for liquorice (British English; licorice in American English), G. glabra, a species native to Eurasia and North Africa,[2] from which most confectionery liquorice is produced.
Species
Species include:[3]
- Glycyrrhiza acanthocarpa
- Glycyrrhiza aspera
- Glycyrrhiza astragalina
- Glycyrrhiza bucharica
- Glycyrrhiza echinata
- Glycyrrhiza eglandulosa
- Glycyrrhiza foetida
- Glycyrrhiza foetidissima
- Glycyrrhiza glabra – liquorice, licorice
- Glycyrrhiza gontscharovii
- Glycyrrhiza iconica
- Glycyrrhiza inflata
- Glycyrrhiza korshinskyi
- Glycyrrhiza lepidota – American licorice
- Glycyrrhiza pallidiflora
- Glycyrrhiza squamulosa
- Glycyrrhiza triphylla
- Glycyrrhiza uralensis
- Glycyrrhiza yunnanensis
References
- ^ a b Bojian Bao and Kai Larsen, "Glycyrrhiza Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 741. 1753", Flora of China
- ^ Bojian Bao and Kai Larsen, "Glycyrrhiza glabra Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 742. 1753", Flora of China
- ^ ILDIS home page