Details for: PI 619248, Amaranthus hypochondriacus L., A-881


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.
Top Name:
A-881
Origin:
Collected – Mexico
Received by NPGS:
20 Feb 1981
Improvement Status:
Cultivated material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Availability
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Seed200 countPI 619248 17ncai01 SD
 
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.
Top Name:
A-881
Origin:
Collected – Mexico
Received by NPGS:
20 Feb 1981
Improvement Status:
Cultivated material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Collected
PRE October 1977.
Mexico
Comment: Originated at the Mexican Experiment Station at Chapingo (in a 1981 letter from the RRC)
Donated
20 February 1981.
Pennsylvania, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
A-881
Type: Unverified name
Written on the original 1977 seed packet.

RRC 173B
Type: Institute identifier
Group: RODALE
From the Rodale Research Center (RRC), Pennsylvania
Rodale Research Center

RRC 78S-173B
Type: Institute identifier
Group: RODALE
From the Rodale Research Center (RRC), Pennsylvania
Rodale Research Center

Ames 2096
Type: Site identifier
Group: AMES
NC-7 Research Numbers
USDA ARS NCRPIS

Narrative
The seeds are brown and white, flowers green and red, leaves green and rufescent. The RRC class type is: Nepal. Observations from the Rodale Research Center, 1988 Rodale Amaranth Germplasm Catalog. Emmaus, PA. The seeds are mostly white, with opaque perisperm. The stems are red or green, the leaves are green with faint red underneath.
Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.
Genus:
Amaranthus
Subgenus:
Amaranthus
Family:
Amaranthaceae
Nomen number:

2796
Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:991. 1753 "hypocondriacus"
Verified:
02/04/2003 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Amaranthus hypochondriacus var. hypochondriacus (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Amaranthus hybridus L. var. hypochondriacus (L.) B. L. Rob.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Amaranthus frumentaceus Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.
Amaranthus hybridus L. var. erythrostachys Moq.
Amaranthus leucocarpus S. Watson
Amaranthus leucospermus S. Watson

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishPrince of Wales-feather  1FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Englishprince's-feather  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishprince's-feather amaranth  1FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Chineseqian sui gu千穗谷 2Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
GermanTrauer-Fuchsschwanz  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1197.
Indiachua  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Indiaramdana  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishbledo  2Bayón, N. D. 2015. Revisión taxonómica de las especies monoicas de Amaranthus (Amaranthaceae): Amaranthus subg. Amaranthus y Amaranthus subg. Albersia. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 101:261-383. DOI: 10.3417/2010080.
Spanish (Mexico)alegría  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish (Mexico)huantli  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish (Mexico)quintonil  2Lira, R. et al., eds. 2016. Ethnobotany of Mexico Springer, New York, US. 114-115.
Swedishtoppamarant  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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Herbarium specimen
  • USDA ARS NCRPIS. Located at NA. Identifier: Ames 2096. Inventory sample: PI 619248.
Citations
Pedigree
Description:
Segragated from RRC 173 at the RRC.

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
CHEMICALSEED STARCH TYPETHE PERCENT OF OPAQUE PERISPERM SEEDS, WHICH STAIN REDISH-BROWN WITH IODINE, OR OBSERVED THROUGH LIGHT COLORED SEED COATS. A LOW PERCENT OPAQUE INDICATES A HIGH PERCENT TRANSLUCENT. REFERENCE: OKUNO AND SAKAGUCHI 1982 HEREDITY 73:467.100 AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997PI 619248 83ncai01 SDNot Available
GENSTOCKMALE STERILITYMALE STERILITY - POLLEN IS NOT VIABLE.FERT - NO STERILITY OBSERVED107AMARANTH.AMES.2017.WINTERPI 619248 81ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYSEED ABSCISIONABSCISION ZONES OF SEED HOLDING UTRICLES AT MATURITY.EQ - UTRICLE SPLITS AT THE EQUATOR107AMARANTH.AMES.2017.WINTERPI 619248 81ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYADULT STEM COLORADULT STEM COLORST - AMARANTHINE STRIPES ON STEM, CAN HAVE PINK OR RED BASE (100%)107AMARANTH.AMES.2017.WINTERPI 619248 81ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYBLADE PIGMENTATIONBLADE PIGMENTATION, MOST CLEAR BEFORE FLOWERING. IT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE PIGMENTATION OF SENESCENT LEAVES OR THE IRIDESCENT PURPLE COLOR UNDER SOME JUVENILE OR NEW LEAVES.GN - NORMAL GREEN (100%)107AMARANTH.AMES.2017.WINTERPI 619248 81ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYBLADE PIGMENTATIONBLADE PIGMENTATION, MOST CLEAR BEFORE FLOWERING. IT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE PIGMENTATION OF SENESCENT LEAVES OR THE IRIDESCENT PURPLE COLOR UNDER SOME JUVENILE OR NEW LEAVES.XX - OTHER AMARANTH.RODALE.RES.CENTER Not Available
MORPHOLOGYFLOWER COLORFLOWER COLORGR - GREEN AMARANTH.RODALE.RES.CENTER Not Available
MORPHOLOGYFLOWER COLORFLOWER COLORGR - GREEN (100%)107AMARANTH.AMES.2017.WINTERPI 619248 81ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYMARBLED INFLORESCENCEINFLORESCENCE ON ANY OF THE PLANTS MARBLED, SO GROUPS OF FLOWERS HAVE CONTRASTING COLORS (OCCASIONAL ON A. cruentus).NONE - NOT PRESENT107AMARANTH.AMES.2017.WINTERPI 619248 81ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYMORPHOLOGICAL GROUPMORPHOLOGICAL GROUP, BASED ON THE RODALE RESEARCH CENTER SYSTEM.AFRI - AFRICAN Kauffman 1992 Food Reviews International 8:165-185 AMARANTH.RODALE.RES.CENTER Not Available
MORPHOLOGYPETIOLE PIGMENTATIONPETIOLE PIGMENTATION (MODIFIED IPGRI SYSTEM)RN - AMARANTHINE, IF ANY IS PRESENT AND LESS INTENSE THAN RHS RED-PURPLE 61C (100%)107AMARANTH.AMES.2017.WINTERPI 619248 81ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYSEED COLORSEED COLOR frequencyWH - WHITE SEED COAT, RHS ORANGE-WHITE 159A (100%) AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997PI 619248 83ncai01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYSEEDLING COLORTHE PERCENTAGE OF THE SEEDLING WITH ANY STEM OR LEAF AMARANTHINE (RED COLORING) IN A GIVEN NUMBER OF EVALUATED SEEDLINGS. THIS DISTINGUISHES THE SEEDLINGS WITH AMARANTHINE FROM GREEN AND ORANGE SEEDLINGS. SCORE WITHIN 3 WEEKS AFTER GERM.100168AMARANTH.AMES.2017.WINTERPI 619248 81ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYSEED SHAPESEED SHAPERB - ROUND, WITH ROUNDED BULGING PERISPERM (100%) AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997PI 619248 83ncai01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYTAXONOMIC VERACITYTaxonomic veracity with reference to the comment in Public GRIN "observation details", or to the GRIN species determination.ATYP - ATYPICAL107AMARANTH.AMES.2017.WINTERPI 619248 81ncao01 SDNot Available
PRODUCTIONHUNDRED SEED WEIGHTTHE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY..058 NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNERPI 619248 83ncai01 SDNot Available
PRODUCTIONHUNDRED SEED WEIGHTTHE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY..062 NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNERPI 619248 81ncao01 SDNot Available
PRODUCTIONHUNDRED SEED WEIGHTTHE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY..065 NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNERPI 619248 17ncai01 SD