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
  
• lakritsrot   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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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: 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 - Kurgan
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China - Xinjiang
• 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:

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• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Bisset, N. G., ed. 1994. Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis.
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23, 1988)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis.
• Jordanov, D. et al., eds. 1963–1982. Flora na narodna republika Balgarija.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
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• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation).
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• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
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• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
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• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
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• Zhu, X. Y. et al. 2007. Legumes of China: a checklist.

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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.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Glycyrrhiza glabra.

Synonyms:

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

Check other web resources for Glycyrrhiza glabra L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• 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.

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

More:

• 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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