Botanical Definition
" ... 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).
Read more about this topic: Indigen, Usage in Botany
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