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Taxon: Secale cereale L.

Genus: Secale
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Pooideae tribe: Triticeae.
Nomen number: 317600
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:84. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 11-Sep-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-Sep-1994
Species priority site is: National Small Grains Collection (NSGC).
Accessions: 45 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • cereal rye   (Source: Cover Crop Database ) – English   [Secale cereale subsp. cereale]
  • rye   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  • rye   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Secale cereale subsp. cereale]
  • hei mai   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Secale cereale subsp. cereale]
  • seigle   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Secale cereale subsp. cereale]
  • seigle cultivé   (Source: F NAmer ) – French   [Secale cereale subsp. cereale]
  • Roggen   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Secale cereale subsp. cereale]
  • rai-mugi   (Source: Names Batra ) – Japanese Rōmaji   [Secale cereale subsp. cereale]
  • centeio   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Secale cereale subsp. cereale]
  • centeno   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Secale cereale subsp. cereale]
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq [n.]; Turkey [w.]
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
  • EUROPE
    East Europe: Russian Federation - European part [s.]

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated

References:

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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Secale cereale L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • 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:

  • Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.
Jump to GrainGenes: A database for Triticeae and Avena

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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?317600 (09 February 2010)

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