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Taxon:
Curcuma longa
L.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Curcuma
Family:
Zingiberaceae
Subfamily:
Zingiberoideae
Tribe:
Zingibereae
Nomen number:
12676
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:2. 1753
Typification:
View in Linnean Typification Project
Verified:
05/12/2008
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Curcuma domestica
Valeton
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Reference(s)
Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009
Note:
based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
http://www.skud.info
Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr.
Flora of Java. 1963-1968
Bosser, J. M. et al., eds.
Flores des Mascareignes. 1976-
Burtt, B. L.
1977. The nomenclature of turmeric and other Ceylon Zingiberaceae. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 35:209-215.
Cannon, J. & M. Cannon.
Dye plants and dyeing. The Herbert Press & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1994
Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds.
Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. 1986-1987
Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980-
Note:
cultivated
Duke, J. A. et al.
CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto.
Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23, 1988)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
Note:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Curcuma+longa&quantity=1
Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
Note:
re. Brazilian common names
Leong-Škorničková, J. et al.
2008. On the identity of turmeric: the typification of
Curcuma longa
L. (Zingiberaceae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 157:37-46.
Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. 1996 499-500.
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
Hortus third. 1976
Note:
a nom. dub.
Magness, J. R. et al.
Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1. 1971
Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
Note:
American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:95.
Newman, M. et al.
2004. Checklist of the Zingiberaceae of Malesia. Blumea Suppl. 16:65.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/blumea
Padua, L. S. de et al., eds.
1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 12(1):215.
http://proseanet.org
Parashar, et al.
1995. Vaniki Sandesh. 19:1-4.
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Real Academia Española.
Diccionario de la lengua española (on-line resource).
Note:
re. common names
Rehm, S.
Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
Shah, N. C.
1997. Traditional uses of tumeric (
Curcuma longa
) in India. J. Med. Aromat. Pl. Sci. 19:948-954.
Walker, E.
Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. 1976
PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
Indian-saffron –
Reference(s)
turmeric –
Reference(s)
French
curcuma –
Reference(s)
safran des Indes –
Reference(s)
German
Gelbwurzel –
Reference(s)
Kurkuma –
Reference(s)
Japanese Rōmaji
ukon –
Reference(s)
Portuguese
açafrão-da-Índia –
Reference(s)
Portuguese (Brazil)
açafrão-da-terra –
Reference(s)
açafroeira –
Reference(s)
gengibre-dourada –
Reference(s)
Spanish
azafrán de la India –
Reference(s)
cúrcuma –
Reference(s)
Swedish
gurkmeja –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Korean
ulgeum –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
probably native
2
Cultivated
widely cult. in tropics
Native
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
(probably native)
Cultivated
(widely cult. in tropics)
Economic Uses
Food additives
Materials
essential oils (fide Ency CNatIn) –
Reference(s)
Medicines
source of curcumin (fide Import Medicinal Pl; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):215. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Reference(s)
Name
References
Economic Uses