Abstract
The first attempt to create a botanical nomenclature came from the German botanist Leonhard Fuchs (1501–1566) who accurately describes and characterizes this plant. Works of The Works of eminent Arabic scientists Al Razi contributed much in this direction during the same period. In the eighteenth century, the Neapolitan chemist and philosopher Giuseppe Donzelli described liquorice, referring to it by its modern name. The Swedish naturalist Carl von Linne (1707–1778) proceeded to subdivide plants into genus and species and identified three different species of Glycyrrhiza: G. glabra, G. echinata, and G. hirsuta (Fiore et al. in J Ethnopharmacol 99:317–324, 2005). However, latest scientific classification of genus Glycyrrhiza reported by Bremer et al. (Bot J Linn Soc, 2009) according to “Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (APG III) system” is as follows: