''Pedalium'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...
in the
Pedaliaceae
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 13 genera and approximately 70 spec ...
family comprising one species, ''Pedalium murex''. It is distributed in India, Sri Lanka and Tropical Africa.
Etymology
The genera name is derived from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
word ''pedalion'' meaning 'rudder of a ship'.
[Ib Friis and Olof Ryding (Editors) ]
References
External links
pharmacographia indica page 49
Monotypic Lamiales genera
Pedaliaceae
Flora of Africa
Flora of Yemen
Flora of India (region)
Flora of Sri Lanka
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