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*Ferula assa-foetida* is a species of plant in the family Apiaceae. It belongs to the kingdom Plantae, phylum Tracheophyta, class Magnoliopsida, and order Apiales. The common name for this organism is assafoetida.
The species is native to Iran. It has been introduced to Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Laos, Libya, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Records of *Ferula assa-foetida* are held by various institutions, including those in the United States, Netherlands, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Canada.
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Species
Ferula assa-foetida
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderApiales
- FamilyApiaceae
Common Name: assafoetida
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 28
- With media
- 22
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Collections
- DBG, US, DOV, MO, A, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United States, Netherlands, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Canada, Iran
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Encyclopedic overview
Ferula assa-foetida is a species of Ferula endemic to Southern Iran. 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.
Outside its native range, other asafoetida-producing species are often misidentified as F. assa-foetida. For example, F. foetida is mistaken for F. assa-foetida in Flora of the U.S.S.R. and Flora of Pakistan. 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. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ferula assa-foetida” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.