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Taxon:  Lawsonia inermis L.



Summary
Genus:
Lawsonia
Family:
Lythraceae
Nomen number:
21699
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:349. 1753
Verified:
05/22/1995 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
5 (5  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)
Lawsonia alba Lam.
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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. Bisset, N. G., ed. Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis. 1994 Note: CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (translation of German edition, by M. Wichtl, ed.)
  3. Burkill, H. M. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 1985-2004
  4. Cannon, J. & M. Cannon. Dye plants and dyeing. The Herbert Press & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1994
  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  6. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  7. 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=Lawsonia+inermis&quantity=1
  8. George, A. S., ed. Flora of Australia. 1980-
  9. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982
  10. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  11. Kartesz, J. T. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 1994
  12. Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. 1996
  13. 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
  14. Merrill, E. D. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. 1922-1926
  15. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. Flora of [West] Pakistan. 1970-
  16. Norton, J. et al. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar. 2009 http://www.unesco.org/new/uploads/media/Plant_Species_Checklist_of_Qatar.pdf
  17. 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
  18. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  19. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  20. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). http://www.prota4u.info/
  21. Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961
Common names
English
Egyptian-privet –
henna –
Jamaica-mignonette –
mignonette-tree –
Arabic
henna –
French
henné –
German
Hennastrauch –
Portuguese
alfeneiro –
hésia –
hena –
Spanish
alcana –
alheña –
Swedish
henna –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSomalia  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSudan  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaEgypt  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaKwaZulu-Natal 
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaBenin  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaBurkina Faso  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaCôte D'Ivoire  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGambia  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGhana  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea-Bissau  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaLiberia  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaMali  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNiger  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNigeria  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSenegal  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSierra Leone  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaTogo  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaZaire  
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanComoros  
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanSeychelles  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentSri Lanka  
2Cultivated    lesser cult. elsewhere
2CultivatedAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSudan  
2CultivatedAfricaNorthern AfricaEgypt  
2CultivatedAfricaNorthern AfricaLibya  
2CultivatedAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNiger  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistan  
4Naturalized    widely natzd.
6Other    exact native range obscure, probable origin s. Asia
Native
Africa
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal]
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Zaire
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Comoros, Seychelles
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan
Cultivated

  • REGION:
Africa
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Sudan
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt, Libya
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Niger
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Pakistan
Naturalized (widely natzd.)
Other (exact native range obscure, probable origin s. Asia)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Materials
tannin/dyestuff (gives base for hair colorants fide Dye Pl) –
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –


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