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

Apiaceae · Turkmenistan, Afghanistan +2

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Ferula ammoniacum (D.Don) Spalik, M.Panahi, Piwczyński & Puchałka: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (D.Don) Spalik, M.Panahi, Piwczyñski & Puchalka.

No habitat climate
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Summary

Ferula ammoniacum (syn. Dorema ammoniacum), also known as oshac or ussaq, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It is the source of Persian gum ammoniac.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ferula ammoniacum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 1 of the 3 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeTurkmenistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 105 km away. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Ferula 11 in the reference

Ferula assa-foetida Ferula assa-foetida Asafetida Photo: CC BY, kirinziFerula communis Ferula communis Giant fennel Photo: CC BY, Barry StewartFerula glauca Ferula glauca Bluish Giant Fennel Photo: CC BY, Eleftherios KatsillisFerula gummosa Ferula gummosa Galbanum Photo: Public domain, author not statedFerula kelleri Ferula kelleri Apiaceae Photo: CC BY, Islam GalymzhanovFerula kuhistanica Ferula kuhistanica Kamol Photo: CC BY, Dr. Alexey YakovlevFerula lancerotensis Ferula lancerotensis Tajasnoyo Photo: CC BY, Christoph MoningFerula ovina Ferula ovina Apiaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexander Dubynin Ferula sadleriana Apiaceae Ferula songarica Ferula songarica Apiaceae Photo: CC BY, ivansemenkovFerula tingitana Ferula tingitana Tangier Fennel Photo: CC BY, Adi Peter

Names & registers

Also known as Diserneston gummiferum; Diserneston hirsutum; Dorema ammoniacum; Dorema gummiferum; Dorema hirsutum and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Apiaceae
Described by
(D.Don) Spalik, M.Panahi, Piwczyński & Puchałka
Native to
Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Iran +1
Wild records
3 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 8628529 is Ferula ammoniacum (D.Don) Spalik, M.Panahi, Piwczyñski & Puchalka; the page links Kew's Ferula ammoniacum (D.Don) Spalik, M.Panahi, Piwczyński & Puchałka, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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