Taxon: Allium porrum L.

• or A. ampeloprasum Leek Group
• a rejected (nom. rej.), heterotypic synonym (Melbourne ICN Art. 14.4 & App. IV) of A. ampeloprasum L., nom. cons.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Allium porrum var. sectivum (no accessions)

Common names:

• leek   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• pearl onion   (Source: Mansf Ency [as A. ampeloprasum Pearl-Onion Group]) – English   [Allium porrum var. sectivum]
  
• kurrat abou shousha   (Source: F Egypt ) – Arabic
  
• jiu cong   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• perleleg   (Source: Mansf Ency [as A. ampeloprasum Pearl-Onion Group]) – Danish   [Allium porrum var. sectivum]
  
• parel-look   (Source: Mansf Ency [as A. ampeloprasum Pearl-Onion Group]) – Dutch   [Allium porrum var. sectivum]
  
• poireau   (Source: Rev sect Allium 70.) – French
  
• Lauch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Perlzwiebel   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German   [Allium porrum var. sectivum]
  
• Porree   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Winter-Lauch   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• porro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Italian
  
• riikeu   (Source: Pl Names ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• alho-porró   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• ajo porro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• puerro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• poro   (Source: Dicc Lengua Espanola ) – Spanish (Latin America)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Rev sect Allium 70. 1996)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of garlic   (fide Theor Appl Genet 107:4. 2003)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Indonesia
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Western Australia
• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Southern South America: Argentina
• also cultivated elsewhere

• probable origin e. Mediterranean region

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). [= A. ampeloprasum].
• Bonnet, B. 1976. Le poireau (Allium porrum L.): aspects botaniques et agronomiques. Revue bibliographique. Saussurea 7:121–155.
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt.
• Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 3:11. [= A. ampeloprasum Porrum Group].
• Brummitt, R. K. 1999. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 48. Taxon 48:362–363. [conservation proposal recommended].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. [= A. ampeloprasum Porrum Group].
• Fritsch, R. M. & N. Friesen. 2002. Chapter 1. Evolution, domestication and taxonomy. P. 23 in: Rabinowitch, H. D. & L. Currah, eds., Allium crop science: recent advances. [as a hexaploid, seed sterile A. ampeloprasum].
• Hanelt, P. 1996. (1258) Proposal to conserve the name Allium ampeloprasum against A. porrum (Liliaceae). Taxon 45:691–692.
• Hirschegger, P. et al. 2010. Origins of Allium ampeloprasum horticultural groups and a molecular phylogeny of the section Allium (Allium: Alliaceae). Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 54:488–497.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= A. ampeloprasum Porrum Group].
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Mathew, B. 1996. A review of Allium sect. Allium.
• 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.
• Paunero, E. et al. 2004. Organic production of leek (Allium porrum L.) seeds in the northeast of the Province of Buenos Aires. Spanish journal of agricultural research 2:564–569.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española (on-line resource). [re. common names].
• 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.
• Smith, B. M. & T. C. Crowther. 1995. Inbreeding depression and single cross hybrids in leek (Allium ampeloprasum subsp. porrum). Euphytica 86:87–94. [indicates that this tetraploid taxon (4x=32) has an open pollination system with 20% of self pollination].
• Stearn, W. T. 1944. Notes on the genus Allium in the Old World. Herbertia 11:11–34.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Yanagino, T. et al. 2003. Production and characterization of an interspecific hybrid between leek and garlic. Theor. Appl. Genet. 107:1–5.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Allium porrum.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Allium porrum.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum (L.) J. Gay
  

Check other web resources for Allium porrum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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 del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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:

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

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• 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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