Biology:Ferula assa-foetida
| Ferula assa-foetida | |
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| The first botanical illustration of Ferula assa-foetida (1712) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Apiaceae |
| Genus: | Ferula |
| Species: | F. assa-foetida
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| Binomial name | |
| Ferula assa-foetida L.
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Ferula assa-foetida is a species of Ferula endemic to Southern Iran.[1] It is a source of asafoetida, but not the main source, although many sources claim so. The production of asafoetida from this species is confined to Southern Iran, especially the area near Lar.[2][3][4]
Outside its native range, other asafoetida-producing species are often misidentified as F. assa-foetida.[5] For example, F. foetida is mistaken for F. assa-foetida in Flora of the U.S.S.R. and Flora of Pakistan.[6][7] In a molecular phylogenetic study, all the plant samples of F. assa-foetida collected in Central Iran were not the true species, but F. alliacea and F. gabrielii or their close relatives instead.[8] Chemical analyses of asafoetida samples obtained from local markets in Eastern Iran also showed that asafoetida-producing species there were F. lutensis, F. foetida, F. alliacea, etc., instead of F. assa-foetida.[2][3]
F. pseudalliacea and F. rubricaulis are endemic to western and southwestern Iran and are sometimes considered conspecific with F. assa-foetida.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Ferula assa-foetida L.". Kew Science. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:842190-1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Farhadi, Faegheh; Asili, Javad; Iranshahy, Milad; Iranshahi, Mehrdad (November 2019). "NMR-based metabolomic study of asafoetida". Fitoterapia 139: 104361. doi:10.1016/j.fitote.2019.104361. PMID 31629871.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Farhadi, Faegheh; Iranshahi, Mehrdad; Taghizadeh, Seyedeh Faezeh; Asili, Javad (November 2020). "Volatile sulfur compounds: The possible metabolite pattern to identify the sources and types of asafoetida by headspace GC/MS analysis". Industrial Crops and Products 155: 112827. doi:10.1016/j.indcrop.2020.112827.
- ↑ Barzegar, Alireza; Salim, Mohammad Amin; Badr, Parmis; Khosravi, Ahmadreza; Hemmati, Shiva; Seradj, Hassan; Iranshahi, Mehrdad; Mohagheghzadeh, Abdolali (April 2020). "Persian Asafoetida vs. Sagapenum: Challenges and Opportunities". Research Journal of Pharmacognosy 7 (2). doi:10.22127/rjp.2019.196452.1516.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chamberlain, David F (1977). "The identity of Ferula assa-foetida L.". Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 35 (2): 229–233. https://archive.org/details/notes-from-royal-botanic-garden-edinburgh-35-002-229-233/mode/2up.
- ↑ Shishkin, B. K. (1974). Flora of the U.S.S.R.. 17. Translated by Lavoott, R. Edited by Lorch, J.. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations. pp. 52. ISBN 0-7065-1299-5. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95737#page/598/mode/1up.
- ↑ "Ferula assa-foetida L.". Missouri Botanical Garden. http://legacy.tropicos.org/Name/1702726?projectid=32.
- ↑ Panahi, Mehrnoush; Banasiak, łukasz; Piwczyński, Marcin; Puchałka, Radosław; Kanani, Mohammad Reza; Oskolski, Alexei A; Modnicki, Daniel; Miłobędzka, Aleksandra et al. (28 September 2018). "Taxonomy of the traditional medicinal plant genus Ferula (Apiaceae) is confounded by incongruence between nuclear rDNA and plastid DNA". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 188 (2): 173–189. doi:10.1093/botlinnean/boy055.
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