Taxon: Glycyrrhiza glabra L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Glycyrrhiza glabra var. glabra (no accessions)
• Glycyrrhiza glabra var. glandulifera (no accessions)

Common names:

• licorice   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• licorice-root   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – English
  
• liquorice   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• réglisse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Lakritze   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Süßholz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• liquirizia   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Italian
  
• alcaçuz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• pau-doce   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• alcazuz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• licórice   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• orozuz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• regaliz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (for candies fide Crops US; Herbal Drugs)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (used in pharmacy fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Medicines: folklore; source of glycyrrhizin   (fide Import Medicinal Pl; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Libya [n.?]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.w.]; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France

• widely cultivated

References:

• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
• Bisset, N. G., ed. 1994. Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis. (Herbal Drugs)
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. (Leg WorldEc)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis. (F CAsia)
• Jordanov, D. et al., eds. 1963–1982. Flora na narodna republika Balgarija. (F Bulg)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. (F Cyprus)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. (Leg NEurasia)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Glycyrrhiza glabra.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Glycyrrhiza glabra. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Glycyrrhiza glandulifera Waldst. & Kit. [≡ Glycyrrhiza glabra var. glandulifera]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Glycyrrhiza glabra L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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