Indigen
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The term Indigen was coined in 1918 by Liberty Hyde Bailey ((1858-1954) an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science) and described as a plant
" of known habitat "[1].
Later, in 1923, Bailey formally defined the indigen as:
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" ... a species of which we know the nativity, - one that is somewhere recorded as indigenous. "
The term was coined to contrast with cultigen which he defined in the 1923 paper as
" ... the species, or its equivalent, that has appeared under domestication, - the plant is cultigenous. "
The definition and usage of the word cultigen has undergone subsequent change (see entry under cultigen).
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