''Pedalium'' is a genus of plant in the
Pedaliaceae
Pedaliaceae, the pedalium family or sesame family, is a flowering plant family classified in the order (biology), order Lamiales.
The family includes sesame (''Sesamum indicum''), the source of sesame seeds.
It comprises 13 genera and approx ...
family comprising one species, ''Pedalium murex''. It is distributed in tropical Africa, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
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Etymology
The genera name is derived from the Greek
Greek may refer to:
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 of all kno ...
word ''pedalion'' meaning 'rudder of a ship'.[Ib Friis and Olof Ryding (Editors) ]
References
External links
pharmacographia indica page 49
Monotypic Lamiales genera
Pedaliaceae
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