Details for: Ames 21891, Zea mays L. subsp. mexicana (Schrad.) H. H. Iltis, 28620

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Zea mays L. subsp. mexicana (Schrad.) H. H. Iltis

Top Name:

28620

Origin:

Collected – México, Mexico

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

30 Jun 1992

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Reproductive Uniformity:

Population

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Annual

Life Cycle:

Annual

Availability

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North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Zea mays L. subsp. mexicana (Schrad.) H. H. Iltis

Top Name:

28620

Origin:

Collected – México, Mexico

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

30 Jun 1992

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Reproductive Uniformity:

Population

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Annual

Life Cycle:

Annual

Source History

Collected

28 September 1982.
México, Mexico
Locality: 2nd Salix tree, north side of road, next to big Taxodium grove, across irrigation canal, ~300 m west of bridge on gravel road to Mexico City (crossing bed of Lago Texcoco), about 1.8 km west-southwest of Texcoco, N.V. Acece, Diente de Mula.
Coordinates: 19.4667, -98.9167 (Map it)
Elevation: 2300m.
Environment description: Large maize fields.

Collector(s):

Donated

30 June 1992.
Wisconsin, United States

Donor(s):

Iltis, Hugh H., University of Wisconsin

Accession Names and Identifiers

28620

Type: Donor identifier

H.H. Iltis, Herbarium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis

Ames 21891

Type: Site identifier

Group: AMES

NCRPIS

USDA ARS NCRPIS

Narrative

Race Chalco. Plants 2-4 m tall, often much branched, quite often heavily tillering (with 1-6 tillers) even in the densest part of the cornfield, this perhaps related to the irrigation of the corn field (n.b. Hardly any introgressants and no F1 hybrids with corn were found here).

Zea mays L. subspp. mexicana (Schrad.) H. H. Iltis

Genus:

Zea

Family:

Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Panicoideae

Tribe:

Andropogoneae

Subtribe:

Tripsacinae

Nomen number:

103582

Place of publication:

Annual Rev. Genet. 4:450. 1971 (emend. Phytologia 23:249. 1972)

Verified:

07/15/1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Zea mays L. (1531 active accession[s])
Zea mays L. subsp. huehuetenangensis (H. H. Iltis & Doebley) Doebley (6 active accession[s])
Zea mays L. subsp. mays (29191 active accession[s])
Zea mays L. subsp. parviglumis H. H. Iltis & Doebley (250 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Euchlaena mexicana Schrad.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Zea mexicana (Schrad.) Kuntze

Common names

Language	Name	note	seq	Citation
English	Central Plateau teosinte		1	FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
English	Chalco teosinte		1	FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
English	Durango teosinte		1	Doebley, J. F. & H. H. Iltis. 1980. Taxonomy of Zea (Gramineae). I. A subgeneric classification with key to taxa. Amer. J. Bot. 67:982-993.
English	Mexican teosinte	as Zea mexicana	1	Englert, J. M. et al. 1999-. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators Note: = Zea mexicana (Schrad.) Kuntze
English	nobogame teosinte		1	FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
English	rayana grass		1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	téosinte		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Teosinte		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)	teosinto		2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	teosinto-de-Guatemala		2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Spanish	accece		2	Wilkes, H. G. 1967. Teosinte: the closest relative of maize Bussey Institution, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Spanish	cocoxie		2	Wilkes, H. G. 1967. Teosinte: the closest relative of maize Bussey Institution, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Spanish	maicillo		2	Wilkes, H. G. 1967. Teosinte: the closest relative of maize Bussey Institution, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Spanish	maís de coyote		2	Wilkes, H. G. 1967. Teosinte: the closest relative of maize Bussey Institution, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Spanish	maíz silvestre		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	sommarteosint		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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