Alnus sieboldiana explained

Alnus sieboldiana (オオバヤシャブシ in Japanese) is an alder species found on the islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Suwanose-jima in Japan.^[1]

A. sieboldiana contains the ellagitannins alnusiin, tellimagrandin I, pedunculagin, casuarinin, casuariin and 2,3-O-(S)-hexahydroxydiphenoyl-D-glucose.^[2]

The Latin specific epithet sieboldiana refers to German physician and botanist Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796–1866).^[3]

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=6615 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Structures of alnusiin and bicornin, new hydrolyzable tannins having a monolactonized tergalloyl group. Yoshida T, Yazaki K, Memon M.U, Maruyama I, Kurokawa K, Shingu T and Okuda T, Chemical and pharmaceutical bulletin, 1989, volume 37, number 10, pages 2655–2660, (abstract)
3. D. Gledhill