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Sesamum

genus of plants
Taxon Taxon Q47334

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
taxon
Described by source
Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 69, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[5][6]
Has fruit type
capsule[10]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Invasion Biology[11]
Parent taxon
Pedaliaceae[2]
Taxon common name
sesame, 胡麻属, 芝麻属, 胡麻属[7][8][9]
Taxon name
Sesamum[3]
Taxon rank
genus[1]
Taxonomic type
Sesamum indicum[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Sesamum ar سمسم da Sesam da Sesamum fi seesamit fi Sesamum ko 참깨속 pl Sesamum pl sezam ru Sesamum ru кунжут ru сезам ru сим-сим zh 胡麻属 zh 芝麻属
🔖 Identifiers · 46
OpenAlex ID
C2780928516
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Sesamum indicum 2.jpg ↗
APNI ID
59238
African Plant Database ID
194856
BioLib taxon ID
113715
Biota of New Zealand ID
4488594c-b4e5-4135-85fd-e0634cb3cd87
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
sesamum
Catalogue of Life ID
7FZJ
DeCS ID
37010
Dyntaxa ID
1006341
EPPO Code
1SEGG
Encyclopedia of Life ID
61194
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Flora of China ID
130195
Flora of North America taxon ID
130195
FloraBase ID
50447
Freebase ID
/m/065s6d
GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)
3172619
GRIN URL
npgsweb.ars-grin.gov
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2121983
INaturalist taxon ID
122995
IPNI plant ID
30077849-2
IRMNG ID
1020542
ITIS TSN
34430
Interlingual Index ID
i104451
J9U entity ID
987007534069705171
MeSH descriptor ID
D031685
MeSH tree code
B01.875.800.575.912.250.583.690.750
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780928516
NBN System Key
NHMSYS0000463470
NCBI taxonomy ID
4181
Nederlands Soortenregister ID
182412
New Zealand Organisms Register ID
68c66736-16c6-4d88-b4f5-34dda9ef8a60
Open Tree of Life ID
497147
Plantarium ID
44560
Plants of the World Online ID
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30077849-2
Queensland Biota ID
12665
Reflora ID
FB621841
Tela Botanica ID
87208
Topic's main category
Category:Sesamum
Tropicos ID
40035854
UBio ID
5866275
USDA PLANTS ID
SESAM
Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID
8770
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
12895402-n
World Flora Online ID
wfo-4000035179
Yale LUX ID
concept/958fee37-b982-43ff-88d4-79ef0c892e29

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🔗 Connections
← Parent taxon 10
Sesamum indicum, Sesamum radiatum, Sesamum alatum, Sesamum rigidum, Sesamum capense, Sesamum schinzianum, Sesamum triphyllum, Sesamum angolense +2 more
Described by source 1
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Has fruit type 1
capsule
Instance of 1
taxon
Parent taxon 1
Pedaliaceae
Taxon rank 1
genus
Taxonomic type 1
Sesamum indicum
Topic's main category 1
Category:Sesamum
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Sesamum
← SNARC ID 1
Russian State Geological Prospecting University
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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [1] ↑ . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 69. wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios. wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual Index ID → i104451
    WordNet 3.1 Synset ID → 12895402-n
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #47825: OENN batch"
  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxonomic type → Sesamum indicum
    Taxon rank → genus
    Parent taxon → Pedaliaceae
    Instance of → taxon
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007534069705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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