Taxon: Allium ampeloprasum L. var. ampeloprasum

See other conspecific taxa:

• Allium ampeloprasum (207 accessions)
• Allium ampeloprasum var. babingtonii (no accessions)

Common names:

• great-headed garlic   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• Levant garlic   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• wild leek   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• ail d'orient   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Ackerknoblauch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Sommerlauch   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Onions)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (only bulbs used fide Food Feed Crops US; Pl Res SEAs 8:62. 1993)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of leek   (fide Theor Appl Genet 94:470. 1997)
  
• Weed   (fide Rev sect Allium 69. 1996)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom [s.]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

References:

• Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 3:11.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• Figliuolo, G. et al. 2001. Genetic evaluation of cultivated garlic germplasm (Allium sativum L. and A. ampeloprasum L. Euphytica 121:325–334. [it used karyotype and quantitative morphological trait analysis to identify & distinguish this hexaploid taxon from A. sativum, the former as "great-head garlic" is favored by pizza makers].
• Kik, C. et al. 1997. Mitochondrial DNA variation and crossability of leek (Allium porrum) and its wild relatives from the Allium ampeloprasum complex. Theor. Appl. Genet. 94:465–471. [this study found that all accessions of A. ampeloprasum including one belonging to this taxon cluster together with A. atroviolaceum; the analyzed accession for this taxon was hexaploid (6x=48)].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• 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) [mentions that this taxon does not produce bulbils in the inflorescence & considers the "great-headed garlic" as a variant of this taxon].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. (F GB Ire)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)

Check other databases for Allium ampeloprasum L. var. ampeloprasum:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Check other databases for 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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