Native to Assam, Bangladesh, India, West Himalaya; introduced into 122 botanical countries across Europe, Africa, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, Pacific, Northern America, and Southern America (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 2 occurrences across 2 countries.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

Leal, M 1205

April 21, 2006

Location

Gabon, Moyen-Ogooue

0.81275, 10.500333

Location Remarks

Mabounie. Off route N1, ca. 41 km ESE of Lambarene, then left (c. N) at Lobi-Mbigou. Mine access road about half way to the river Ngounie (GPS is from the road terminus at the river). 92 m elev.

Collectors

Miguel E. Leal, Diosdado Nguema, Etienne Mounoumoulossi, Prance Bissiemou, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph

No collection number

July 19, 2009

Location

United States, New York (Brooklyn Botanic Garden)

Location Remarks

1000 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, NY

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Pedaliaceae

Genus

Sesamum

Specific Epithet

indicum

Authorship

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIF WFO POWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 0.9

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.1

Global rank

#278,312 of 335,497

Top 83%

Extinction probability

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →