Glycyrrhiza
Glycyrrhiza is a genus of about 20 accepted species in the legume family, with a subcosmopolitan distribution in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.
The genus is best known for liquorice, G. glabra, a species native to Eurasia and North Africa, from which most confectionery liquorice is produced.Species include:
- 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
