Taxon:
Litsea cubeba (Lour.) Pers.
Summary
Place of publication:
Syn. pl. 2(1):4. 1806
Verified:
10/05/2009
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) www.skud.info
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- Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963-1968. Flora of Java.
- Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1984. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 31:271.
- Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986-1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
- Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
- Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984-. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
- Hara, H. et al. 1978-1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
- Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan.
- Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
- Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 19:99, 123-126. URL: http://proseanet.org
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- Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
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Common names
English
litsea – mountain-pepper – pheasant-pepper – Indonesian
sambal – Japanese Rōmaji
ao-moji – Swedish
kubeba-lager – Transcribed Chinese
shan ji jiao –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Anhui Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Fujian Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guangdong Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guizhou Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hainan Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hubei Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hunan Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Jiangsu Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Jiangxi Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Sichuan Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Xizang Zizhiqu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Yunnan Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Zhejiang Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Honshu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Kyushu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Ryukyu Islands | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Bangladesh | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Bhutan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Sikkim | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Nepal | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Cambodia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Laos | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Myanmar | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Vietnam | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | Jawa | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | Kalimantan | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | Sumatera | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
Native
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China [Anhui Sheng, Zhejiang Sheng, Fujian Sheng, Hunan Sheng, Hubei Sheng, Jiangxi Sheng, Jiangsu Sheng, Guangdong Sheng, Guizhou Sheng, Sichuan Sheng, Yunnan Sheng, Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu, Xizang Zizhiqu, Hainan Sheng]
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EASTERN ASIA:
Japan [Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands], Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India [Sikkim], Nepal
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INDO-CHINA:
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
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MALESIA:
Indonesia [Kalimantan, Jawa, Sumatera], Malaysia
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China
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EASTERN ASIA:
Japan, Taiwan
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Food additives | flavoring | | Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications. |
Food additives | flavoring | | Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 19:99, 123-126. URL: http://proseanet.org |
Materials | essential oils | | Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986-1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. |
Materials | essential oils | source of citral | Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 19:99, 123-126. URL: http://proseanet.org |
Materials | wood | | Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). URL: http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2 |
Medicines | folklore | fide Pl Res SEAs 19:123. 1999; Herbs Commerce ed2 | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |