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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:
2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
- Indian-saffron (Source: Ency CNatIn
) – English
- turmeric (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- 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
) – Japanese Rōmaji
- ulgeum (Source: Kulturpflanze
34:95.) – Transcribed Korean
- 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
- cúrcuma (Source: Dicc Lengua Espanola
) – Spanish
- gurkmeja (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
- More:
Native:
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India [probably native]
Cultivated: - widely cultivated in tropics
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr.
1963–1968. Flora of Java.
- Bosser, J. M. et al., eds.
1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
- 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.
- Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds.
1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
[cultivated].
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
- Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto.
Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23, 1988)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- 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.
499–500.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
[a nom. dub.].
- Magness, J. R. et al.
1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants.
Kulturpflanze
34:95.
- 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.
In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
12(1):215.
- Parashar, 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).
- Real Academia Española.
Diccionario de la lengua española (on-line resource).
[re. common names].
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- Shah, N. C.
1997. J. Med. Aromat. Pl. Sci.
19:948–954.
- Walker, E.
1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources 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.
Check other web resources for images:
- PlantSystematics.org
-
 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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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?12676 (18 May 2013)
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