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Taxon: Curcuma longa L.

Genus: Curcuma
Family: Zingiberaceae subfamily: Zingiberoideae tribe: Zingibereae.
Nomen number: 12676
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:2. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 12-May-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-May-2008
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • Indian-saffron   (Source: Ency CNatIn )
  • turmeric   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  • yü chiu   (Source: HerbSpices ) [Transcribed Chinese]
  • curcuma   (Source: Dict Rehm ) [French]
  • safran des Indes   (Source: Dict Rehm ) [French]
  • Gelbwurzel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) [German]
  • Kurkuma   (Source: Dict Rehm ) [German]
  • ukon   (Source: HerbSpices ) [Transcribed Japanese]
  • açafrão-da-Índia   (Source: HerbSpices ) [Portuguese]
  • açafrão-da-terra   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) [Portuguese (Brazil)]
  • açafroeira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) [Portuguese (Brazil)]
  • gengibre-dourada   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) [Portuguese (Brazil)]
  • azafrán de la India   (Source: Dict Rehm ) [Spanish]
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

Native:
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India [probably native]
Other:
  • widely cultivated in tropics

References:

  • PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
  • Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
  • Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes. (F Mascar)
  • Burtt, B. L. 1977. The nomenclature of turmeric and other Ceylon Zingiberaceae. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 35:209–215.
  • Cannon, J. & M. Cannon. 1994. Dye plants and dyeing. The Herbert Press & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. (Dye Pl)
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon) [cultivated].
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • 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. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3) [a nom. dub.].
  • Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1. (Crops US)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Newman, M. et al. 2004. Checklist of the Zingiberaceae of Malesia. Blumea Suppl. 16:65.
  • Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 12(1):215.
  • Parashar, K. K. 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. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Shah, N. C. 1997. J. Med. Aromat. Pl. Sci. 19:948–954.
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Curcuma longa L.:

  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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