Taxon: Lens culinaris Medik.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris (3045 accessions)
• Lens culinaris subsp. odemensis (8 accessions)
• Lens culinaris subsp. orientalis (92 accessions)
• Lens culinaris subsp. tomentosus (no accessions)

Common names:

• gram   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English   [Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  
• lentil   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• lentil   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  
• bing dou   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  
• lentille   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  
• lentille comestible   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French   [Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  
• lentillon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  
• Linse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  
• masur   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India   [Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  
• lenticchia   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian   [Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  
• lentilha   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  
• lenteja   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  
• lins   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish   [Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan [e.]; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [s.]; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan [n.w.]
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Greece

• widely cultivated

References:

• 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).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Fratini, R. & M. L. Ruiz. 2006. Interspecific hybridization in the genus Lens applying in vitro embryo rescue. Euphytica 150:271–280. [this self-pollinated species was crossed with Lens ervoides, L. nigricans, and L. odemensis].
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lens culinaris.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lens culinaris.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lens culinaris.

Synonyms:

• Cicer lens (L.) Willd. [= Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  
• Ervum lens L. [≡ Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  (previously associated with 19 accessions)
• Ervum orientale Boiss. [≡ Lens culinaris subsp. orientalis]
  
• Lens esculenta Moench [≡ Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  (previously associated with 154 accessions)
• Lens odemensis Ladiz. [≡ Lens culinaris subsp. odemensis]
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• Lens orientalis (Boiss.) Hand.-Mazz. [≡ Lens culinaris subsp. orientalis]
  (previously associated with 98 accessions)
• Lens tomentosus Ladiz. [≡ Lens culinaris subsp. tomentosus]
  
• Lentilla lens (L.) W. Wight ex D. Fairchild [= Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris]
  (previously associated with 36 accessions)

Check other web resources for Lens culinaris Medik.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• 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.

Images or nodulation data:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• 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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