Details for: PI 480540, Amaranthus hypochondriacus L., IC-18371

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.

Top Name:

IC-18371

Origin:

Collected – India

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

Sep 1983

PI Assigned:

1983

Improvement Status:

Landrace

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Inventory Volume:

191
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	200 count		PI 480540 85ncai01 SD

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.

Top Name:

IC-18371

Origin:

Collected – India

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

Sep 1983

PI Assigned:

1983

Improvement Status:

Landrace

Source History

Collected

India
Locality: Kinnaur

Donated

September 1983.
India

Donor(s):

National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources

Accession Names and Identifiers

IC-18371

Type: Donor identifier

Group: NBPGR

NBPGR

Narrative

Used for baking bread. Popped seeds eaten with milk and sugar, sugar, or syrup. Leaves used as vegetable and as purgative. Fermented seeds used as a beverage. Local name Kalgi.

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

Taxonomic Re-Identification: 21 Sep 2004, from Amaranthus spp. to Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
CHEMICAL	SEED STARCH TYPE	THE PERCENT OF OPAQUE PERISPERM SEEDS, WHICH STAIN REDISH-BROWN WITH IODINE, OR OBSERVED THROUGH LIGHT COLORED SEED COATS. A LOW PERCENT OPAQUE INDICATES A HIGH PERCENT TRANSLUCENT. REFERENCE: OKUNO AND SAKAGUCHI 1982 HEREDITY 73:467.	100		AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997	PI 480540 85ncai01 SD
GENSTOCK	MALE STERILITY	MALE STERILITY - POLLEN IS NOT VIABLE.	FERT - NO STERILITY OBSERVED	41	AMARANTH.AMES.2003.FALL	PI 480540 85ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	SEED ABSCISION	ABSCISION ZONES OF SEED HOLDING UTRICLES AT MATURITY.	EQ - UTRICLE SPLITS AT THE EQUATOR	41	AMARANTH.AMES.2003.FALL	PI 480540 85ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	BLADE PIGMENTATION	BLADE 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.	GN - NORMAL GREEN (100%)	41	AMARANTH.AMES.2003.FALL	PI 480540 85ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	SEED COLOR	SEED COLOR frequency	BR - DARK BROWN SEED COAT, RHS 175A to 200A (2%)		AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997	PI 480540 85ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	SEED COLOR	SEED COLOR frequency	WH - WHITE SEED COAT, RHS ORANGE-WHITE 159A (98%)		AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997	PI 480540 85ncai01 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.	10.6061	66	AMARANTH.AMES.2003.FALL	PI 480540 85ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	SEED SHAPE	SEED SHAPE	RB - ROUND, WITH ROUNDED BULGING PERISPERM (100%)		AMARANTH.AMES.SEED.1997	PI 480540 85ncai01 SD
MORPHOLOGY	TAXONOMIC VERACITY	Taxonomic veracity with reference to the comment in Public GRIN "observation details", or to the GRIN species determination.	TYPI - TYPICAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SPECIES	41	AMARANTH.AMES.2003.FALL	PI 480540 85ncai01 SD
PRODUCTION	HUNDRED SEED WEIGHT	THE WEIGHT IN GRAMS OF 100 SEEDS. TAKEN FROM THE HUNDRED SEED WEIGHTS IN THE GRIN INVENTORY.	.07		NC7.INVENTORY.BRENNER	PI 480540 83ncpo01 SD	Not Available
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	PI 480540 85ncai01 SD