Details for: Ames 15204, Amaranthus hypochondriacus L., RRC 21

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.

Top Name:

RRC 21

Origin:

Collected – India

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

07 Jun 1990

Life Form:

Annual

Life Cycle:

Annual

Life Habit:

Forb

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	200 count		Ames 15204 94ncai01 SD

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.

Top Name:

RRC 21

Origin:

Collected – India

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

07 Jun 1990

Life Form:

Annual

Life Cycle:

Annual

Life Habit:

Forb

Source History

Collected

PRE 01 May 1976.
India

Donated

01 May 1976.
Taiwan

Donor(s):

Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center

07 June 1990.
Pennsylvania, United States

Donor(s):

Reider, Carolyn, Rodale Research Center

Accession Names and Identifiers

RRC 21

Type: Institute identifier

Group: RODALE

From the Rodale Research Center (RRC), Pennsylvania

Rodale Research Center

A73-25

Type: Institute identifier

Group: AVRDC

Documented in RRC Login Book

Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center

Ames 15204

Type: Site identifier

Group: AMES

NC-7 Research Numbers

USDA ARS NCRPIS

Narrative

The seeds are brown, flowers red and pink, leaves variegated. The RRC class type is: Nepal. Observations from the Rodale Reasearch Center, 1988 Rodale Amaranth Germplasm Catalog. Emmaus, PA. Seed shipped with closing of Rodale Amaranthus program.

Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.

Genus:

Amaranthus

Subgenus:

Amaranthus

Family:

Amaranthaceae

Nomen number:

2796

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:991. 1753 "hypocondriacus"

Protologue link:

https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/359012

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

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

Language	Name	Alternate name	seq	Citation
English	Prince of Wales-feather		1	FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
English	prince's-feather		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	prince's-feather amaranth		1	FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Chinese	qian sui gu	千穗谷	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
German	Trauer-Fuchsschwanz		2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1197.
India	chua		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
India	ramdana		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	bledo		2	Bayón, 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		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish (Mexico)	huantli		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish (Mexico)	quintonil		2	Lira, R. et al., eds. 2016. Ethnobotany of Mexico Springer, New York, US. 114-115.
Swedish	toppamarant		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
GENSTOCK	MALE STERILITY	MALE STERILITY - POLLEN IS NOT VIABLE.	INTER - SEGREGATING POPULATION 10% TO 90%	112	AMARANTH.AMES.1994	Ames 15204 90ncao01 SD	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	SEED COLOR	SEED COLOR frequency	BR - DARK BROWN SEED COAT, RHS 175A to 200A (74%)		AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997	Ames 15204 94ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	SEED COLOR	SEED COLOR frequency	BY - BROWN SEED COAT WITH YELLOW, DRIES TO LIGHT BROWN, RHS GRAYED-ORANGE 165B (3%)		AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997	Ames 15204 94ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	SEED COLOR	SEED COLOR frequency	WH - WHITE SEED COAT, RHS ORANGE-WHITE 159A (12%)		AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997	Ames 15204 94ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	SEED COLOR	SEED COLOR frequency	YL - YELLOW SEED COAT, DRIES TO RHS GREYED-ORANGE 164B (11%)		AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997	Ames 15204 94ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	SEEDLING COLOR	THE 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.	79.2	216	AMARANTH.AMES.1994	Ames 15204 90ncao01 SD	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	SEED SHAPE	SEED SHAPE	RB - ROUND, WITH ROUNDED BULGING PERISPERM (100%)		AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997	Ames 15204 94ncai01 SD
PRODUCTION	HUNDRED SEED WEIGHT	THE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY.	.08		NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNER	Ames 15204 94ncai01 SD
PRODUCTION	HUNDRED SEED WEIGHT	THE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY.	.09		NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNER	Ames 15204 90ncao01 SD	Not Available