Taxon:
Lens culinaris Medik. subsp. culinaris
Summary
Verified:
09/08/2000
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Alo, F. et al. 2011. Leveraging genomic resources of model species for the assessment of diversity and phylogeny in wild and domesticated lentil. J. Heredity 102:315-329. Note: this study supports the hypothesis of a "polycentric" origin of domestication
- Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
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- Ferguson, M. E. et al. 2000. A re-assessment of the taxonomy of Lens Mill. (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae, Vicieae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 133:56.
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- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
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Common names
English
gram – lentil – French
lentille – lentille comestible – lentillon – German
Linse – India
masur – Italian
lenticchia – Portuguese
lentilha – Spanish
lenteja – Swedish
lins – Transcribed Chinese
bing dou –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | widely cult. |
Cultivated
(widely cult.)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
soil improver (fide Pl Res SEAs 1:51. 1989) – Human food
pulse (fide Pl Res SEAs 1:51. 1989) – Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2, as Lens culinaris) –