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Taxon:  Allium chinense G. Don



Summary
Genus:
Allium
Subgenus:
Cepa
Section:
Sacculiferum
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:
Allioideae
Tribe:
Allieae
Nomen number:
101417
Place of publication:
Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. 6:83. 1827 ("1832")
Verified:
06/03/2009 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Allium bakeri Regel
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Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 3:13.
  3. Czerepanov, S. K. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). 1995 Note: Cambridge University Press
  4. Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990 Note: Kampong Publications
  5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Allium+chinense&quantity=1
  6. Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:2422827336895397#
  7. Keller, E. R. J. et al. 1996. Interspecific crosses of onion with distant Allium species and characterization of the presumed hybrids by means of flow cytometry, karyotype analysis and genomic in situ hybridization. Theor. Appl. Genet. 92:417. http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/122
  8. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  9. Mann, L. K. & W. T. Stearn. 1960. Rakkyo or Ch'iao T'ou (Allium chinense G. Don, syn. A. bakeri Regel) a little known vegetable crop. Econ. Bot. 14:69-83. http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/12231
  10. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  11. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:76
  12. Ohwi, J. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). 1965
  13. Pandey, A. et al. 2008. Realizing value of genetic resources of Allium in India. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 55:985-994. Note: mentions that flowers are used for flavoring
  14. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  15. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  16. Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 8:71-73. http://proseanet.org
  17. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
  18. Yanagino, T. et al. 2003. Production and characterization of an interspecific hybrid between leek and garlic. Theor. Appl. Genet. 107:4. http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/122
Common names
English
Chinese onion –
Chinese scallion –
Japanese scallion –
Oriental onion –
Japanese Rōmaji
rakkyō –
Swedish
rakkyolök –
Transcribed Chinese
jiao tou –
Transcribed Korean
yeombuchu –
yeomgyo –
Distribution
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang]
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China
  • EASTERN ASIA: Korea, Japan
Asia-Tropical
  • INDO-CHINA: Indochina
  • MALESIA: Indonesia
Northern America
  • SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California]
Pacific
  • NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
Southern America
  • CARIBBEAN: Cuba
Economic Uses
Human food
Medicines
folklore (fide Pl Res SEAs 8:71. 1993) –


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