Editing Sumac (section)

{{Short description|Related species of plants in the family Anacardiaceae}}
{{About||poison sumac|Toxicodendron vernix|other uses|Sumac (disambiguation)}}
{{redirect|Sumak|the village in Turkey|Sumak, Pertek}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|name = Sumac
|fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Ypresian|Recent}}
|image = SumacFruit.JPG
|image_caption = Sumac fruit in the autumn season
|taxon = Rhus
|authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?10433
|title=''Rhus'' L. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2009-11-23 |access-date=2010-02-09}}</ref>
|type_species = ''[[Rhus coriaria]]''
|type_species_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]<!--1753--><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40025260 |title=''Rhus'' L. |work=TROPICOS |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |access-date=2010-02-09}}</ref>
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = 54; see text
|subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>{{Cite POWO|id=30005665-2|title=''Rhus'' {{au|L.}}|access-date=3 November 2024}}</ref>
|synonyms={{genus list|hidden=yes|header=12 Synonyms
 |Duckera|[[Fred Alexander Barkley|F.A.Barkley]]
 |Festania|[[Raf.]]
 |Lobadium|[[Raf.]]
 |Melanococca|[[Carl Ludwig Blume|Blume]]
 |Neostyphonia|[[John Adolph Shafer|Shafer]]
 |Pocophorum|[[Neck.]]
 |Rhoeidium|[[Edward Lee Greene|Greene]]
 |Schmaltzia|[[Desv.]] ex [[DC.]]
 |Styphonia|[[Nutt.]]
 |Sumacus|[[Raf.]]
 |Thezera|[[Raf.]]
 |Turpinia|[[Raf.]]
 }}
|synonyms_ref=<ref name = powo/>
}}

'''Sumac''' or '''sumach'''{{Efn|Other spellings include '''sumak''', '''soumak''', and '''sumaq'''.}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|uː|m|æ|k|,_|ˈ|ʃ|uː|-}} {{respell|S(H)OO|mak}}, {{IPAc-en|UKalso|ˈ|sj|uː|-}})—not to be confused with [[Toxicodendron vernix|poison sumac]]—is any of the roughly 35 species of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[genus]] '''''Rhus''''' (and related genera) of the [[cashew]] and [[mango]] tree family, [[Anacardiaceae]]. However, it is ''[[Rhus coriaria]]'' that is most commonly used for culinary purposes. Sumac is prized as a [[spice]]—especially in [[Kurdish cuisine|Kurdish]], [[Arab cuisine|Arab]], [[Lebanese cuisine|Lebanese]], [[Turkish cuisine|Turkish]], [[Armenian cuisine|Armenian]], [[Iranian cuisine|Iranian]], and other Eastern cuisines —and used as a [[Natural dye|dye]] and [[Alternative medicine|holistic]] remedy. The plants grow in [[Subtropics|subtropical]] and [[Temperate climate|temperate]] regions, on nearly every continent except Antarctica and South America.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rhus in Flora of China @ efloras.org|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=128455|access-date=2023-02-08|website=www.efloras.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=USDA Plants Database|url=https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=RHUS|access-date=2023-02-08|website=plants.usda.gov}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Allison J. |last2=Young |first2=David A. |last3=Wen |first3=Jun |title=Phylogeny and Biogeography of Rhus (Anacardiaceae) Based on ITS Sequence Data |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/322948 |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |access-date=20 September 2023 |pages=1401–1407 |doi=10.1086/322948 |date=2001|volume=162 |issue=6 |jstor=10.1086/322948 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>