Abelmoschus esculentus

Taxonomy ID: 455045 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:455045)

current name

Abelmoschus esculentus  Moench, 1794

homotypic synonym:

Hibiscus esculentus  L.

Genbank common name: okra
NCBI BLAST name: eudicots
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Other names:

common name(s)

lady's fingers, quiabo, lady's-fingers

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; rosids; malvids; Malvales; Malvaceae; Malvoideae; Abelmoschus

Comments and References:

image:Abelmoschus esculentus Image by Earth100 from Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA license. * Image may not have been verified for accuracy by NCBI Taxonomy.

TROPICOS (Apr 05, 2012) Name accessed on 5 April 2012 in: Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, 2008 - 4344 Shaw Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A. on line at: http://www.tropicos.org

GRIN (Apr 05, 2012) Name accessed on 5 April 2012 in: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland

Flora of China - Malvaceae Ya Tang, Michael G. Gilbert & Laurence J. Dorr. Malvaceae. In Wu, Z. Y., P. H. Raven & D. Y. Hong, eds. 2007. Flora of China. Vol. 12 (Hippocastanaceae through Theaceae). Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. Online version.

African Plants Database (Apr 05, 2012) Name accessed on 5 April 2012 in: African Flowering Plants Database (version 3.1). Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Villle de Geneve and South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, retrieved from http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa

FNA - Abelmoschus Bates DM. 2015. Abelmoschus Medikus, Malvenfam. 45. 1787. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Eds.) Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 6: Magnoliophyta: Cucurbitaceae to Droseraceae. Online version.