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Details for: PI 385946,
Allium cepa
L. var.
cepa
, Bombay Red
Summary
Passport
Taxonomy
Other
Pedigree
IPR
Observation
Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Allium cepa
L. var.
cepa
Top Name:
Bombay Red
Origin:
Donated – Kenya
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
01 Mar 1974
PI Assigned:
1974
Life Form:
Biennial
Life Cycle:
Biennial
Inventory Volume:
182
View original Plant Inventory data in pdf format
Availability
This is historical information about this accession. It no longer exists and can not be requested.
There are no images for this accession.
Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Allium cepa
L. var.
cepa
Top Name:
Bombay Red
Origin:
Donated – Kenya
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
01 Mar 1974
PI Assigned:
1974
Life Form:
Biennial
Life Cycle:
Biennial
Source History
Donated
01 March 1974.
Kenya
Comment:
Received by S.W. Braverman, Division of Plant Quarantine Services, East Africa Agriculture and Forestry Research Organization, Nairobi.
Donor(s):
Kirchoffs East Africa Limited
Accession Names and Identifiers
Bombay Red
Type: Unverified name
Narrative
Allium cepa
L. var.
cepa
Genus:
Allium
Subgenus:
Cepa
Section:
Cepa
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:
Allioideae
Tribe:
Allieae
Nomen number:
409114
Comment:
or
Allium cepa
Common Onion Group
Verified:
07/09/1997
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Allium cepa
L.
(1016 active accession[s])
Allium cepa
L. var.
aggregatum
G. Don
(2 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
bulb onion
1
Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds.
1993. Vegetables. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds.,
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA)
8:68.
Note:
=
Allium cepa
Common Onion Group
English
common onion
1
Brewster, J. L.
1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort.
Note:
Chapter 1 refers to cultivated onion into two horticultural groups, the Common Onion group and the
Agreggatum
group accepting Hanelt's 1990 (IN: H. D. Rabinowitch & J. L. Brewster, Onions and Allied crops) concepts
English
onion
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English
Spanish onion
1
Brewster, J. L.
1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort.
Note:
Chapter 1 refers to cultivated onion into two horticultural groups, the Common Onion group and the
Agreggatum
group accepting Hanelt's 1990 (IN: H. D. Rabinowitch & J. L. Brewster, Onions and Allied crops) concepts
English
spring onion
1
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Chinese
yang cong
洋葱
2
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-.
Flora of China (English edition).
French
oignon
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German
Küchenzwiebel
as
Allium cepa
Cepa Group
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
Note:
=
Allium cepa
Cepa Group
German
Sommerzwiebel
as
Allium cepa
Cepa Group
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
Note:
=
Allium cepa
Cepa Group
German
Speisezwiebel
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese
cebola
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish
cebolla
2
Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Name
References
Annotations
Taxonomic Re-Identification:
15 Sep 1999, from
Allium cepa
L. to
Allium cepa
L. var.
cepa
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COMMENT
COMMENT1
GENERAL COMMENTS ON THE ACCESSION.
Multiplier. From Kirchoffs Ea
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
GROWTH
PLANT HEIGHT
PLANT HEIGHT IN CENTIMETERS
44
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
GROWTH
PLANT UNIFORMITY
PLANT UNIFORMITY IN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
7 - (1 = POOR, 9 = VERY UNIFORM)
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
GROWTH
PLANT VIGOR
PLANT VIGOR
5 - MEDIUM
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
BULB DIAMETER
AVG DIAMETER (MM) OF 5-10 MATURE BULBS.
6.5
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
BULB NECK DIAMETER
AVERAGE BULB NECK DIAMETER (MM) OF FIVE OR MORE BULBS.
1
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
BULB ROOT SIZE
CODED DESCRIPTION OF AVG. ROOT DIAMETER.
5 - MEDIUM
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
BULB SHAPE
CODED DESCRIPTION OF THE MATURE BULB SHAPE.
FL - FLAT
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
BULB SKIN COLOR
SKIN COLOR OF THE MATURE BULBS.
RD - RED
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
AMOUNT OF BLOOM
AMOUNT OF BLOOM
5 - MEDIUM
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
BULB DEPTH
BULB DEPTH IN CENTIMETERS
5.5
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
NUMBER OF BROKEN LEAVES
NUMBER OF BROKEN LEAVES
1 - FEW (1-5)
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
NUMBER OF LEAVES
RELATIVE NUMBER OF LEAVES
2 - MODERATE (6-12)
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
NECK LENGTH
NECK LENGTH IN CENTIMETERS
7
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
NUMBER OF LOOSE SCALES
RELATIVE NUMBER OF LOOSE SCALES
3 - (1 = FEW, 9 = MANY)
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available
PHENOLOGY
MATURITY
RELATIVE TIME TO MATURITY
5 - MEDIUM
NE9.ALLIUM.75
Not Available