Details for: PI 5398, Basella alba L.

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Basella alba L.

Origin:

Collected – West Bengal, India

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

30 Aug 1900

PI Assigned:

1900

Inventory Volume:

9
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Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Basella alba L.

Origin:

Collected – West Bengal, India

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

30 Aug 1900

PI Assigned:

1900

Source History

Collected

West Bengal, India

Collector(s):

Prain, D., Royal Botanic Gardens - Kew

Accession Names and Identifiers

Narrative

Basella alba L.

Genus:

Basella

Family:

Basellaceae

Nomen number:

6531

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:272. 1753

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

03/12/2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Basella cordifolia Lam.
Basella rubra L.

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	seq	Citation
English	Ceylon-spinach		1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English	Indian-spinach		1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English	Malabar-nightshade		1	1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
English	Malabar-spinach		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	vine-spinach		1	Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Chinese	luo kui	落葵	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
French	baselle		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	brède d'Angola		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	brède de Malabar		2	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
French	épinard de Malabar		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Malabarspinat		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Japanese Rōmaji	tsuru-murasaki		2	Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan.
Portuguese	bacela		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)	bertalha		2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	bretalha		2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Spanish	espinaca blanca		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	espinaca de Malabar		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swahili	Mboga buterezi		2	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Swedish	malabarspenat		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

Annotations

The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received: 03 Apr 1997, from Basella rubra L. to Basella alba L.