Sesamum indicum

Sesamum

Plantae — Angiospermae

Eudicotes
Asterides
Ordo : Lamiales
Familia : Pedaliaceae
Genus : Sesamum
Species : S. indicum

Sesamum indicum
L.

Sesamum indicum est planta seminifera in Africa endemica, primum in India culta. Semina appellantur sesamides.

Semen Sesami indici (antiquissimum usque hodie omnium in regiones ad orientem Indiae repertorum) inter vestigia archaeobotanica latebat apud locum archaeologicum Phu Khao Thong qui emporium fuit itinerum mercatoriorum inter India et Serica a saeculo IV ad I a.C.n.^[1]

Notae[recensere | fontem recensere]

↑ Cristina Cobo Castillo, Bérénice Bellina, Dorian Q. Fuller, "Rice, beans and trade crops on the early maritime Silk Route in Southeast Asia" in Antiquity vol. 90 (2016) pp. 1255-1269

Bibliographia[recensere | fontem recensere]

Fontes antiquiores

1330 : Hu Si-hui, Propria ad mensam Imperatoris principia (Paul D. Buell, Eugene N. Anderson, edd. et interprr., A Soup for the Qan: Chinese dietary medicine of the Mongol era as seen in Hu Szu-hui's Yin-shan cheng-yao [Londinii: Kegan Paul, 2000] p. 522 et alibi)
1592 : Prosper Alpinus, De plantis Aegypti ff. 37bis-38bis
1750 : Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, Herbarium Amboinense (Amstelaedami: Chanquion, 1741-1750) vol. 5 p. 204, tab. 76; cf. E. D. Merrill, An Interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense. Manilae: Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bureau of Science, 1917 p. 469