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Pedaliaceae, the pedalium family or sesame family, is a flowering plant family classified in the order Lamiales. The family includes sesame (Sesamum indicum), the source of sesame seeds.

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Pedaliaceae is a family of plants within the kingdom Plantae, phylum Tracheophyta, class Magnoliopsida, and order Lamiales. The taxon was described by R. Brown in 1810 and holds an accepted status. It is classified as a family in the Plants of the World and WoRMS databases.

Records for this family are held by institutions including NY, MEL, CM, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), and SRP. These records document occurrences in Brazil, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, and Malawi. The family has 39,634 occurrence records, 80 iDigBio records with 43 media items, and 1,212 PubMed entries.

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Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderLamiales
  5. FamilyPedaliaceae
Observations recorded39,634

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
80
With media
43
Family
Pedaliaceae
Collections
NY, MEL, CM, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), SRP, SJNM
Recorded in
Brazil, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, China, Netherlands, Ethiopia

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Pedaliaceae, the pedalium family or sesame family, is a flowering plant family classified in the order Lamiales. The family includes sesame (Sesamum indicum), the source of sesame seeds.

It comprises 11 genera and approximately 80 species. Eight genera are native to the African continent and one genus (Uncarina) is endemic to Madagascar. Two genera (Sesamum and Pedalium) are mainly African natives but they also include regions to the east (including Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Malayan Islands and northern Australia).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pedaliaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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