Lens culinaris Medik. GRIN-Global

Summary

Genus:

Lens

Family:

Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Faboideae

Tribe:

Fabeae

Nomen number:

411141

Place of publication:

Vorles. Churpfälz. Phys.-ökon. Ges. 2:361. 1787

Verified:

09/08/2000 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System.

Other conspecific taxa

Lens culinaris Medik. subsp. culinaris (0 active accession[s])
Lens culinaris Medik. subsp. orientalis (Boiss.) Ponert (0 active accession[s])
Lens culinaris Medik. subsp. tomentosus (Ladiz.) M. E. Ferguson et al. (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

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Reference(s)

PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) www.skud.info
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 Note: GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France
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. Note: 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 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Personal Care Products Council. INCI
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).

Common names

English
lentil –

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	Note
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Caucasus	Azerbaijan
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Caucasus	Georgia
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Middle Asia	Kazakhstan	s.
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Middle Asia	Tajikistan
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Middle Asia	Turkmenistan
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Middle Asia	Uzbekistan
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Western Asia	Afghanistan	e.
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Western Asia	Cyprus
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Western Asia	Iran
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Western Asia	Iraq
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Western Asia	Israel
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Western Asia	Jordan
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Western Asia	Lebanon
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Western Asia	Syria
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Western Asia	Turkey
1	Native	Asia-Tropical	Indian Subcontinent	Pakistan	n.w.
1	Native	Europe	Southeastern Europe	Greece
2	Cultivated				widely cult.

Native
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

Europe

Cultivated (widely cult.)

Economic Uses

Usage	Type	Note	Reference
Medicines	folklore		McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.