Taxon: Allium cepa L. var. cepa

See other conspecific taxa:

• Allium cepa (948 accessions)
• Allium cepa var. aggregatum (2 accessions)

Common names:

• bulb onion   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – English
  
• onion   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Spanish onion   (Source: Brewster 1994) – English
  
• spring onion   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• yang cong   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• oignon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Küchenzwiebel   (Source: Zander ed17 [as A. cepa Cepa Group]) – German
  
• Sommerzwiebel   (Source: Zander ed17 [as A. cepa Cepa Group]) – German
  
• Speisezwiebel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• cebola   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• cebolla   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West Tropical Africa: Burkina Faso; Ghana; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal
  South Tropical Africa: Zambia; Zimbabwe
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Primorye
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan
  Indo-China: Thailand
  Malesia: Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Guatemala
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Ecuador
• also cultivated elsewhere

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. [= A. cepa Cepa Group].
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Messiaen, C.-M. et al. 1993. Les Allium alimentaires reproduits par voie végétative. 1–230.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. P. 8:68 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). [= A. cepa Common Onion Group].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

Check other web resources for Allium cepa L. var. cepa:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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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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