Details for: PI 414933, Allium cepa L., Sphinx

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Allium cepa L.

Top Name:

Sphinx

Origin:

Donated – South Africa

Maintained:

Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

Received by NPGS:

17 Mar 1977

PI Assigned:

1977

Life Form:

Biennial

Life Cycle:

Biennial

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Inventory Volume:

185
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	100 count		PI 414933 03CI SD

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Allium cepa L.

Top Name:

Sphinx

Origin:

Donated – South Africa

Maintained:

Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)

Received by NPGS:

17 Mar 1977

PI Assigned:

1977

Life Form:

Biennial

Life Cycle:

Biennial

Source History

Donated

17 March 1977.
South Africa
Comment: Received through Plant Introducion Office, Division of Plant and Seed Control, Pretoria.
Donor(s):

Horticultural Research Inst.

Accession Names and Identifiers

Sphinx

Type: Unverified name

PI 352428

Type: Inventory

Narrative

Short day onion.

Allium cepa L.

Genus:

Allium

Subgenus:

Cepa

Section:

Cepa

Family:

Amaryllidaceae

Subfamily:

Allioideae

Tribe:

Allieae

Nomen number:

2244

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:300. 1753

Protologue link:

https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358319

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

07/09/1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Allium cepa L. var. aggregatum G. Don (2 active accession[s])
Allium cepa L. var. cepa (96 active accession[s])

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

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Allium cumaria Buch.-Ham., nom. inval.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	bulb onion	1	Havey, M. J. 1991. Phylogenetic relationships among cultivated Allium species from restriction enzyme analysis of the chloroplast genome. Theor. Appl. Genet. 81:752-757. Note: this study included five USDA accessions (PI 172703, PI 207456, PI 227346, PI 260793, and PI 293756); it found evidence of close affinity between Allium cepa and A. fistulosum
English	common onion	1	Fritsch, R. M. & N. Friesen. 2002. Chapter 1. Evolution, domestication and taxonomy. In: Rabinowitch, H. D. & L. Currah, eds., Allium crop science: recent advances 5-30. Note: recognizes three crop groups: Common onion group, Ever-ready onions and Aggregatum group
English	onion	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	shallot	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Arabic	basal	2	Boulos, L. 1999-. Flora of Egypt
Italian	cipolla	2	International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Swedish	lök	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Korean	ogba	2	Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:75.
Transcribed Korean	yangba	2	Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:75.

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study	Availability
COMMENT	COMMENT1	GENERAL COMMENTS ON THE ACCESSION.	Short day type. From Horticul	NE9.ALLIUM.78	Not Available
COMMENT	COMMENT2	GENERAL COMMENTS ON THE DESCRIPTOR.	Pretoria. Grows best in dry r	NE9.ALLIUM.78	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	DAY LENGTH REQUIREMENT FOR BUL	RELATIVE DETERMINATION OF PHOTOPERIOD DEPENDANCY.	3 - SHORT DAY	NE9.ALLIUM	Not Available