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Genus: Allium subgenus: Cepa section: Cepa
Family: Amaryllidaceae subfamily: Allioideae tribe: Allieae. Also placed in:
Alliaceae
Liliaceae
Nomen number: 2244
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:300. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 09-Jul-1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Jan-2007
Species priority site is: Northeast Regional PI Station (NE9).
Accessions:
897 in National Plant Germplasm System.
See also subordinate taxa:
- bulb onion (Source: Pl Res SEAs
) – English [Allium cepa var. cepa]
- ever-ready onion (Source: Zander ed17
[as A. cepa Aggregatum Group]) – English [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
- multiplier onion (Source: Mansf Ency
[as A. cepa Aggregatum Group]) – English [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
- onion (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- onion (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Allium cepa var. cepa]
- potato onion (Source: Mansf Ency
[as A. cepa Aggregatum Group]) – English [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
- shallot (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- shallot (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
- Spanish onion (Source: Brewster 1994) – English [Allium cepa var. cepa]
- huo cong (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
- yang cong (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese [Allium cepa var. cepa]
- échalote (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
- oignon (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Allium cepa var. cepa]
- oignon patate (Source: UPOV
) – French [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
- Küchenzwiebel (Source: Zander ed17
[as A. cepa Cepa Group]) – German [Allium cepa var. cepa]
- Schalotte (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
- Sommerzwiebel (Source: Zander ed17
[as A. cepa Cepa Group]) – German [Allium cepa var. cepa]
- Speisezwiebel (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German [Allium cepa var. cepa]
- cebola (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese [Allium cepa var. cepa]
- chalota (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
- cebolla (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Allium cepa var. cepa]
- chalote (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
- escaluña (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
- More:
- More:
Cultivated:
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
- Brewster, J. L.
1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums.
Crop Prod. Sci. Hort.
3:5.
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Kala, C. P. et al.
2004. Prioritization of medicinal plants on the basis of available knowledge, existing practices and use value status in Uttaranchal, India.
Biodivers. & Conserv.
13:459.
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
- Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Mansfeld, R.
1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2. (Mansfeld)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Munro, D. B.
Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds.
1993. Vegetables.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
8:64–71.
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
- Walker, E.
1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Allium cepa L.:
-
Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- PROTABASE: Plant Resources of
Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
- Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?2244 (09 February 2010)
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