Details for: PI 708000, Amaranthus hypochondriacus L., RRC 1003


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.
Top Name:
RRC 1003
Origin:
Collected – Afghanistan
Received by NPGS:
15 Apr 1986
Improvement Status:
Breeding material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Life Habit:
Forb
Availability
FormQuantityNoteInventoryCart
Seed200 countPI 708000 15ncai01 SD
 
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.
Top Name:
RRC 1003
Origin:
Collected – Afghanistan
Received by NPGS:
15 Apr 1986
Improvement Status:
Breeding material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Life Habit:
Forb
Source History
Collected
PRE 15 April 1986.
Afghanistan

Donated
15 April 1986.
Pennsylvania, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
RRC 1003
Type: Institute identifier
Group: RODALE
From the Rodale Research Center (RRC), Pennsylvania
Rodale Research Center

Ames 5609
Type: Site identifier
Group: AMES
NC-7 Research Numbers
USDA ARS NCRPIS

Narrative
The seeds are white, flowers red, leaves rufescent. The RRC class type is: Nepal. It was uniform and late maturing. Observations from the Rodale Research Center, 1988 Rodale Amaranth Germplasm Catalog. Emmaus, PA. As reported in the 1981 publication, the plants are uniform, early and short for the Nepal type and lodging resistant.
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)
Annotations
Other Links
Actions
  • PINUMBERED: Assigned PI 708000 to Ames 5609. 21 May 2025.
Pathogens
Vouchers
Herbarium specimen
Citations
  • Kauffman, Charles S. 1981. Improved grain amaranth varieties and their yields (3-year summary). Note: RRC 1003 is on page 20 Number of accessions cited: 0
  • Park, Young-Jun & T. Nishikawa. 2012. Rapid identification of Amaranthus caudatus and Amaranthus hypochondriacus by sequencing and PCR-RFLP analysis of two starch synthase genes. Genome 55:623-628. Number of accessions cited: 52
Pedigree
Description:
BULK of RRC NUM 77S-79, also known as RRC 79.

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
GENSTOCKMALE STERILITYMALE STERILITY - POLLEN IS NOT VIABLE.FERT - NO STERILITY OBSERVED75AMARANTH.AMES.2015.WINTERPI 708000 86ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYSEED ABSCISIONABSCISION ZONES OF SEED HOLDING UTRICLES AT MATURITY.EQ - UTRICLE SPLITS AT THE EQUATOR75AMARANTH.AMES.2015.WINTERPI 708000 86ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYADULT STEM COLORADULT STEM COLORST - AMARANTHINE STRIPES ON STEM, CAN HAVE PINK OR RED BASE (100%)75AMARANTH.AMES.2015.WINTERPI 708000 86ncao01 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.CS - CENTRAL SPOT (100%)75AMARANTH.AMES.2015.WINTERPI 708000 86ncao01 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 COLORRED - DARK AMARANTHINE, DARKER THAN RHS RED-PURPLE 62B (RED OR PURPLE) AMARANTH.RODALE.RES.CENTER Not Available
MORPHOLOGYFLOWER COLORFLOWER COLORRED - DARK AMARANTHINE, DARKER THAN RHS RED-PURPLE 62B (RED OR PURPLE) (100%)75AMARANTH.AMES.2015.WINTERPI 708000 86ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYMORPHOLOGICAL GROUPMORPHOLOGICAL GROUP, BASED ON THE RODALE RESEARCH CENTER SYSTEM.NEPA - NEPAL C.S. 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%) AMARANTH.AMES.2015.WINTERPI 708000 86ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYSEED COLORSEED COLOR frequencyBR - DARK BROWN SEED COAT, RHS 175A to 200A (96%) AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997PI 708000 93ncai01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYSEED COLORSEED COLOR frequencyWH - WHITE SEED COAT, RHS ORANGE-WHITE 159A (4%) AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997PI 708000 93ncai01 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.100142AMARANTH.AMES.1993PI 708000 86ncao01 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.10074AMARANTH.AMES.2015.WINTERPI 708000 86ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYSEED SHAPESEED SHAPERB - ROUND, WITH ROUNDED BULGING PERISPERM (100%) AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997PI 708000 93ncai01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYTAXONOMIC VERACITYTaxonomic veracity with reference to the comment in Public GRIN "observation details", or to the GRIN species determination.TYPI - TYPICAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SPECIES AMARANTH.AMES.2015.WINTERPI 708000 86ncao01 SDNot Available
MORPHOLOGYTERMINAL INFLORESCENCETERMINAL INFLORESCENCE ATTITUDE1 - ERECT75AMARANTH.AMES.2015.WINTERPI 708000 86ncao01 SDNot Available
PRODUCTIONHUNDRED SEED WEIGHTTHE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY..05 NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNERPI 708000 86ncao01 SDNot Available
PRODUCTIONHUNDRED SEED WEIGHTTHE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY..068 NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNERPI 708000 15ncai01 SD
PRODUCTIONHUNDRED SEED WEIGHTTHE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY..074 NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNERPI 708000 93ncai01 SDNot Available