Myristica fragrans

Myristica fragrans (binomen a Martino Houttuyn anno 1774 statutum) est species arborum fructiferarum familiae Myristicacearum in insulis Bandanis nativa, alibi recentius culta propter cortices et nucleos fructuum aromaticos per omnem terrarum orbem venundatos. Cortex Latinitate communi macis, nucleus nux moschata (aliter "nux muscata" vel "nux myristica") appellari solet.

Myristica fragrans (Gustav Pabst, ed., Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erläuterndem Texte. Gera-Untermhaus, 1887)

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Plantae — Magnoliophyta

Classis : Magnoliopsida 
Ordo : Magnoliales 
Familia : Myristicaceae 
Genus : Myristica 
Species : M. fragrans 

Myristica fragrans 
Houtt.  

Bibliographia

Fontes antiquiores

• 1563 : Garcias ab Orta, Colóquios dos simples e drogas da Índia (1563) colloquium 32; versio Latina 1567 p. 99 "De maci"
• 1597 : John Gerard, The Herball, or generall historie of plantes. Londinii: John Norton p. 1351 "nux myristica et macis: the nutmeg with his mace"
• 1742 : Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, Herbarium Amboinense (Amstelaedami: Chanquion, 1741-1750) vol. 2 p. 14, tab. 4; cf. E. D. Merrill, An Interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense. Manilae: Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bureau of Science, 1917 p. 229
• 1774 : Martinus Houttuyn, Natuurlijke Historie pars 2 fasc. 3 (1774) p. 333

Eruditio recentior

• Peter Lape et al., "New Data from an Open Neolithic Site in Eastern Indonesia" in Asian Perspectives vol. 57 (2018) pp. 222-243 Epitome
• Frederick J. Simoons, Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inquiry (CRC Press, 1991) p. 404 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Myristica fragrans spectant.

Vide "Myristica fragrans" apud Vicispecies.

• Andrea Godinez, "3,500-year-old pumpkin spice? Archaeologists find the earliest use of nutmeg as a food" (2 Octobris 2018) apud Phys.org