Taxon: Allium fistulosum L.

Common names:

• bunching onion   (Source: Pl Syst Evol 269:259) – English
  
• Japanese bunching onion   (Source: Brewster 1994) – English
  
• Welsh onion   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• cong   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• ail fistuleux   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• ciboule   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  
• Schnittzwiebel   (Source: HerbSpices ) – German
  
• Winterzwiebel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• cipoletta   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Italian
  
• cipolla d'inverno   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• negi   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• ba   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:76.) – Transcribed Korean
  
• luk batun   (Source: F Armenia ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• luk dudčatyj   (Source: F Armenia ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• cebolleta   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Spanish
  
• piplök   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide HerbSpices)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (leaves, pseudostems fide Crop Prod Sci Hort 3:12. 1994)
  
• Gene sources: disease resistance for onion   (fide Acta Physiol Pl 31:224. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of leek   (fide Acta Physiol Pl 31:224. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of onion   (fide Acta Physiol Pl 31:224. 2009)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 8:74. 1993; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory; United States - Alaska

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Congo; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Ghana; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Zambia; Zimbabwe
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Norway
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part

• probable origin e. Asia

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 3:12.
• Chuda, A. & A. Abrams. 2009. Aspects of interspecific hybridization within edible Alliaceae. Acta Physiol. Pl. 31:223–227.
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Esquivel, M. & K. Hammer. 1992. The cultivated species of the genus Allium in Cuba. In: Hanelt, P. et al., eds., The genus Allium - taxonomic problems and genetic resources. Proceedings of an international symposium held at Gatersleben, Germany, June 11-13, 1991. 43–48.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Friesen, N. et al. 1999. RAPDs and noncoding chloroplast DNA reveal a single origin of the cultivated Allium fistulosum from A. altaicum (Alliaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 86:554–562. [this study using choroplast DNA found evidence that this taxon derived from an A. altaicum progenitor].
• Friesen, N. et al. 2006. Phylogeny and new intrageneric classification of Allium (Alliaceae) based on nuclear ribosomal DNA ITS sequences. Aliso 22:372–395.
• Fritsch, R. M. & N. Friesen. 2002. Chapter 1. Evolution, domestication and taxonomy. In: Rabinowitch, H. D. & L. Currah (Eds.), Allium crop science: recent advances. 5–30.
• Gurushidze, M. et al. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships of wild and cultivated species of Allium section Cepa inferred by nuclear rDNA ITS sequence analysis. Pl. Syst. Evol. 269:259–269.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 4:2259–2260.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kik, C. 2002. Chapter 4. Exploitation of wild relatives for the breeding of cultivated Allium species. In: Rabinowitch, H. D. & L. Currah (Eds.), Allium crop science: recent advances. 81–100.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Messiaen, C.-M. et al. 1993. Les Allium alimentaires reproduits par voie végétative. 1–230.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:76.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Ricroch, A. et al. 2005. Evolution of genome size across some cultivated Allium species. Genome 48:511–520.
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 8:73–77.
• Stearn, W. T. 1944. Notes on the genus Allium in the Old World. Herbertia 11:11–34.
• Takhtajan, A. L., ed. 1954–1987. Flora Armenii.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Allium fistulosum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Allium fistulosum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Allium fistulosum.

Check other web resources for Allium fistulosum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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