Many medicinal species are characterized by the specific epithet officinalis, as they were most commonly used in pharmaceutical laboratories (in Latin, officinae). In this area, organized according to a chronological criterion, there are indeed specimens of species with the epithet officinalis, belonging to numerous genera, including Asparagus, Melissa, Galega, and Saponaria, as well as some of the most commonly used species in recent herbal medicine, such as Silybum marianum, Ginkgo biloba, and Melaleuca alternifolia.
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