Taxon: Allium porrum L.
Genus: Allium subgenus: Allium section: Allium
Family: Amaryllidaceae subfamily: Allioideae tribe: Allieae. Also placed in:
Alliaceae
Liliaceae
Nomen number: 2351
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:295. 1753, nom. rej.
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comments:- or A. ampeloprasum Leek Group
- a rejected, heterotypic synonym (Vienna ICBN Art. 14.4 & App. IV) of A. ampeloprasum L., nom. cons.
Name verified on: 01-Jul-1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-May-2007
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6). Accessions:
2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
See also subordinate taxa:
- leek (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- pearl onion (Source: Mansf Ency
[as A. ampeloprasum Pearl-Onion Group]) – English [Allium porrum var. sectivum]
- perleleg (Source: Mansf Ency
[as A. ampeloprasum Pearl-Onion Group]) – Danish [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
- alho-porró (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- ajo porro (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- puerro (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- poro (Source: Dicc Real Acad
) – Spanish (Latin America)
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Cultivated: - only cultivated, possible origin e. Mediterranean region
- Bonnet, B.
1976. Le poireau (Allium porrum L.): aspects botaniques et agronomiques. Revue bibliographique.
Saussurea
7:121–155.
- 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. (F Turk)
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
- Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
[= A. ampeloprasum Porrum Group].
- Fritsch, R. M. & N. Friesen.
2002. Chapter 1. Evolution, domestication and taxonomy.
In: Rabinowitch, H. D. & L. Currah (Eds.), Allium Crop Science: Recent Advances
23. [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.
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
[= A. ampeloprasum Porrum Group].
- Mansfeld, R.
1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2. (Mansfeld)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- Mathew, B.
1996. A review of Allium sect. Allium. (Rev sect Allium)
[recognizes this taxon with tetraploid (4x=32) & hexaploid (6x=48) populations].
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Real Academia Española.
Diccionario de la lengua española (Dicc Real Acad)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Ricroch, A. et al.
2005. Evolution of genome size across some cultivated Allium species.
Genome
48:511–520. [this study reports a tetraploid accession of this taxon with a genome size of 12.7 pg].
- 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. (F Eur)
- Walters, S. M. et al., eds.
1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
- Yanagino, T. et al.
2003. Production and characterization of an interspecific hybrid between leek and garlic.
Theor. Appl. Genet.
107:1–5. [cultivated plant material was used as maternal progenitor of hybrids with A. sativum, one hybrid was obtained through ovary culture, and meristermatic cultured provided 3 plants].
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Allium porrum L.:
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Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- 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:
- 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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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?2351 (09 February 2010)
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