Taxon: Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench

Common names:

• gombo   (Source: F Madag )
  
• gumbo   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• kacang bendi   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 8:57.)
  
• kopi arab   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 8:57.)
  
• lady's-fingers   (Source: Pl Book )
  
• okra   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• quiabo   (Source: Andean roots)
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  

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

Distributional range:

• widely cultivated in tropic & warm-temperate regions

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Bates, D. M. 1968. Notes on the cultivated Malvaceae 2. Abelmoschus. Baileya 16:110–112.
• Borssum Waalkes, J. v. 1966. Malesian Malvaceae revised. Blumea 14:100–101.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops. (Edible HC)
• Hermann, M. in M. Hermann & J. Heller. 1997. Andean roots and tubers.
• Humbert, J.-H., ed. 1936–. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores. (F Madag)
• 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)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 8:57.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Abelmoschus esculentus.

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

Synonyms:

• (≡) Hibiscus esculentus L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 101 accessions)

Check other databases for Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: 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

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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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