Pedaliaceae
Pedalium Or Sesame Family
The Pedaliaceae family (Pedalium Or Sesame Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Lamiales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 6 species across 3 genera. Its members are predominantly herbs. Well-represented genera include Sesamum, Martynia and Pedalium. Several members are valued in traditional medicine. Familiar examples include Devils'claw, Teeth dropping Plant and Wingseed Sesame.
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Opposite, often glandular-hairy leaves on herbs with mucilaginous sap; bilaterally symmetrical, tubular flowers resemble small foxgloves and ripen into a distinctive fruit armed with hooked spines or horns.
Sesame, the family's best-known member, packs its seeds with unusually stable, oxidation-resistant oil — one reason sesame oil has remained a staple cooking and preservation oil for millennia.
Which Pedaliaceae species is this?
Answer what you can see and narrow it down to a single Pedaliaceae species.
To check whether a plant belongs to Pedaliaceae, compare the leaf arrangement, leaf type, flower symmetry, fruit type, and one distinctive marker together. A single feature can mislead; the family pattern is the combination.
Learn the full family-identification methodNotable members
Families that can look similar
Acanthaceae
Compare against Acanthaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare AcanthaceaeLamiaceae
Compare against Lamiaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare LamiaceaeVerbenaceae
Compare against Verbenaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare VerbenaceaeScrophulariaceae
Compare against Scrophulariaceae when the plant shares similar leaves, flowers, or fruit. Confirm by checking the full family pattern.
Compare ScrophulariaceaeAll 6 species in PEDALIACEAE
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