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Taxon:  Sesamum indicum L.



Summary
Genus:
Sesamum
Family:
Pedaliaceae
Nomen number:
33749
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:634. 1753, nom. cons.
Comment:
  • conserved (nom. cons.) against the heterotypic synonym (Melbourne ICN Art. 14.4 & App. IV) S. orientale
  • first united with S. orientale L. by DC., Pl. rar. jard. Geneve 16-19. 1825, satisfying Melbourne ICN Art. 11.5, despite arguments in Taxon 38:656-659. 1989
Verified:
12/05/1996 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1 (1  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Sesamum mulayanum N. C. Nair
Sesamum orientale L.
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Reference(s)
  1. 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
  2. Batra, L. R. Names of Japanese plants sorted by their Japanese names in Romanized Katakana and scientific nomenclature. 1995
  3. Brummitt, R. K. 2005. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 57. Taxon 54:1098. Note: proposal recommended
  4. Burkill, H. M. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 1985-2004 Note: = S. orientale L.
  5. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980-
  6. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  7. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. Flora zambesiaca. 1960- http://www.kew.org/efloras/namesearch.do
  8. 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=Sesamum+indicum&quantity=1
  9. Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:2422827336895397#
  10. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982
  11. International Seed Testing Association. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982
  12. John, C. M. et al. 1950. The wild gingelly of Malabar. Madras Agric. J. 37:47-50.
  13. Kartesz, J. T. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 1994 Note: = S. orientale L.
  14. Magness, J. R. et al. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1. 1971
  15. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  16. Matthew, K. M. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. 1983 Note: = S. orientale L.
  17. 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
  18. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:129.
  19. Nicolson, D. H. & J. H. Wiersema. 2004. (1618) Proposal to conserve Sesamum indicum against Sesamum orientale (Pedaliaceae). Taxon 53:210-211. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
  20. Nicolson, D. H. et al. 1988. An interpretation of Van Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus. Regnum Veg. 119:207.
  21. 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
  22. Rehm, S. & G. Espig. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. 1991 Note: = S. orientale L.
  23. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  24. Rosengarten, F. The book of edible nuts. 1984
  25. Seegeler, C. J. P. 1989. Sesamum orientale L. (Pedaliaceae): sesame's correct name. Taxon 38:656-659. Note: = S. orientale L.; maintains that DC's joining of S. indicum & S. orientale was only provisional
  26. Smith, A. C. Flora vitiensis nova. 1979-1991 Note: = S. orientale L.
  27. Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1976. Flora malesiana. 1948- 7:829. Note: = S. orientale L.
  28. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  29. Uphof, J. C. T. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968
  30. Voss, E. G. 1996. pers. comm. Note: accepts, based on examination of DC's original reference, concluding that DC effectively satisfied the requirements of Art. 11.5 (Tokyo Code) in uniting S. indicum & S. orientale and choosing S. indicum
  31. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
  32. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
beniseed –
benneseed –
benniseed –
sesame –
French
sésame –
India
gingelly –
til –
Italian
sesamo –
Japanese Rōmaji
goma –
Portuguese
gergelim –
gimgelim –
Spanish
ajonjolí –
sésamo –
Swahili
simsim –
ufuta –
wangila –
Swedish
sesam –
Transcribed Chinese
hu ma –
zhi ma –
Transcribed Korean
chamkkae –
unknown
beni –
benne –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    widely cult.
6Other    possible origin India or Africa
Cultivated (widely cult.)
Other (possible origin India or Africa)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Food additives
flavoring (from seeds fide Edible Nuts; PROTA4U, ash as salt substitute) –
Human food
oil/fat (fide Dict Econ Pl) –
Materials
lipids (for lubricants, medicines, perfumes, soaps fide PROTA4U) –
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Non-vertebrate poisons
plant pest control (together with pyrethrum fide Mansf Ency) –


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