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Taxon:
Nigella sativa
L.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Nigella
Family:
Ranunculaceae
Subfamily:
Ranunculoideae
Tribe:
Nigelleae
Nomen number:
25337
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:534. 1753
Typification:
View in Linnean Typification Project
Verified:
05/20/1992
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
2
(
2
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
(Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
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
Babu, C. R.
Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun. 1977
Cufodontis, G.
Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. 1953-1972
Davis, P. H., ed.
Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
Duke, J. A. et al.
CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
Encke, F. et al.
Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
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=Nigella+sativa&quantity=1
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#
Huxley, A., ed.
The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
Kartesz, J. T.
A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 1994
Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
Flora SSSR. 1934-1964
Kunkel, G.
Plants for human consumption. 1984
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
Hortus third. 1976
Mabberley, D. J.
The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
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
Meikle, R. D.
Flora of Cyprus. 1977-1985
Migahid, A. M.
Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3. 1988-1990
Mouterde, P.
Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. 1966-
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
Rehm, S.
Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest.
Flora of Iraq. 1966-
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
Flora europaea, second edition. 1993
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
Flora europaea. 1964-1980
Wood, J. R. I.
A handbook of the flora of Yemen. 1997
Zohary, M.
1983. The genus
Nigella
(Ranunculaceae) - a taxonomic review. Pl. Syst. Evol. 142:94.
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/606
Common names
English
black-caraway –
Reference(s)
black-cumin –
Reference(s)
fennel-flower –
Reference(s)
nigella –
Reference(s)
nutmeg-flower –
Reference(s)
Roman-coriander –
Reference(s)
Arabic
habah al-brekah –
Reference(s)
French
nigelle de Crète –
Reference(s)
toute épice –
Reference(s)
German
Schwarzkümmel –
Reference(s)
Portuguese
cominho-negro –
Reference(s)
Spanish
ajenuz –
Reference(s)
arañuel –
Reference(s)
Swedish
svartkummin –
Reference(s)
Transliterated Russian
černuška posevnaja –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
order_code
Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
Western Asia
Iraq
1
Native
Asia-Temperate
Western Asia
Turkey
2
Cultivated
widely cult.
4
Naturalized
sometimes natzd. from Mediterranean region to c. Asia
Native
Asia-Temperate
WESTERN ASIA:
Iraq
,
Turkey
Cultivated
(widely cult.)
Naturalized
(sometimes natzd. from Mediterranean region to c. Asia)
Economic Uses
Food additives
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Reference(s)
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide F Yemen) –
Reference(s)
Name
References
Economic Uses