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Apiaceae

Ferula

Ferula ammoniacum (D.Don) Spalik, M.Panahi, Piwczyński & Puchałka

First published in Taxon 64: 780 (2015)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is Iran to Turkmenistan and W. Pakistan. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

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Native to:

Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan

Homotypic Synonyms

Dorema ammoniacum D.Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 16: 601 (1833)
Ferula ammonifera Oken in Allg. Naturgesch. 3(3): 1822 (1841), nom. superfl.
Peucedanum ammoniacum (D.Don) Baill. in Hist. Pl. 7: 186 (1879)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Diserneston gummiferum Jaub. & Spach in Ill. Pl. Orient. 1: 78 (1842)
Diserneston hirsutum Lofius ex I.G.Borshch. in Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, 3(1): 28 (1860)
Dorema gummiferum (Jaub. & Spach) K.M.Korol. in V.L.Komarov (ed.), Fl. URSS 17: 162 (1951)
Dorema hirsutum Lofius ex I.G.Borshch. in Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, 3(1): 28 (1860)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Kew Backbone Distributions

Hedge, I.C., Lamond, J.M. & Rechinger, K.H. (1987). Flora Iranica 162: 1-555. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz.
Nasir, E. (1972). Flora of West Pakistan 20: 1-169.
Shishkin, B.K. (ed.) (1950). Flora Turkmenii 5: 1-271. Turkmenskoe gosudarstvennoe izd., Ashkhabad.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Science Photographs
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