Taxon: Guizotia abyssinica (L. f.) Cass.

Common names:

• niger   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• nigerseed   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• noug   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  
• Nigersaat   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• ramtil   (Source: Pl Book ) – India (Hindi)
  
• verbesina-da-Índia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• abisin   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• negrillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• ramtilla   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide PROTABASE)
  
• Human food: oil/fat; pseudocereal   (fide PROTABASE)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (as birdseed fide F Eur; Food Feed Crops US, for livestock feed)
  
• Materials: lipids   (seeds source of Niger seed oil fide Dict Econ Pl; F TE Afr)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide PROTABASE)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia

• cultivated elsewhere

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Baagoe. 1974. The genus Guizotia (Compositae): a taxonomic revision. Bot. Tidsskr. 69:1–39.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Getinet, A. & S. M. Sharma. 1997. Niger. Guizotia abyssinica (L.f.) Cass. In: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. (Prom Underused Crops) 5:1–59.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
• 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)
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India. (F India)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. (Dict Econ Pl)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Guizotia abyssinica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Guizotia abyssinica. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Guizotia oleifera DC.
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (≡) Polymnia abyssinica L. f. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Guizotia abyssinica (L. f.) Cass.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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.

Images:

• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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