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Taxon:  Allium porrum L. (Allium porrum Leek Group)



Summary
Genus:
Allium
Subgenus:
Allium
Section:
Allium
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:
Allioideae
Tribe:
Allieae
Nomen number:
2351
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:295. 1753
Comment:
  • [or Allium porrum Leek Group]
  • *a rejected (nom. rej.), heterotypic synonym (Shenzhen ICN 14.4 & App. IV) of A. ampeloprasum L., nom. cons., when the two are considered the same species, but the correct name if A. porrum and A. ampeloprasum are treated as separate species (Shenzhen ICN 14.6)
Verified:
07/01/1996 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Allium porrum L. var. kurrat (Schweinf. ex K. Krause) Seregin (0 active accession[s])
Allium porrum L. var. porrum (0 active accession[s])
Allium porrum L. var. sectivum Lueder (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Allium ampeloprasum L. var. porrum (L.) J. Gay

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Reference(s)
  1. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). Note: = Allium ampeloprasum
  2. Bonnet, B. 1976. Le poireau (Allium porrum L.): aspects botaniques et agronomiques. Revue bibliographique. Saussurea 7:121-155.
  3. Boulos, L. 1999-. Flora of Egypt
  4. Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 3:11. Note: = Allium ampeloprasum Porrum Group
  5. Brummitt, R. K. 1999. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 48. Taxon 48:362-363. Note: conservation proposal recommended
  6. Davis, P. H., ed. 1965-1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
  7. Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
  8. Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications. Note: = Allium ampeloprasum Porrum Group
  9. Fritsch, R. M. & N. Friesen. 2002. Chapter 1. Evolution, domestication and taxonomy. Allium crop science: recent advances CABI Publications. 23. Note: as a hexaploid, seed sterile Allium ampeloprasum
  10. Hanelt, P. 1996. (1258) Proposal to conserve the name Allium ampeloprasum against A. porrum (Liliaceae). Taxon 45:691-692.
  11. Hirschegger, P. et al. 2010. Origins of Allium ampeloprasum horticultural groups and a molecular phylogeny of the section Allium (Allium: Alliaceae). Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 54:488-497.
  12. Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
  13. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934-1964. Flora SSSR.
  14. Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
  15. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. Note: = Allium ampeloprasum Porrum Group
  16. Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
  17. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
  18. Mathew, B. 1996. A review of Allium sect. Allium 70.
  19. Messiaen, C.-M. et al. 1993. Les Allium alimentaires reproduits par voie végétative. 1.230.
  20. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:76
  21. Paunero, E. et al. 2004. Organic production of leek (Allium porrum L.) seeds in the northeast of the Province of Buenos Aires. Spanish J. Agric. Res. 2:564-569.
  22. Personal Care Products Council. INCI
  23. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
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  25. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
  26. Ricroch, A. et al. 2005. Evolution of genome size across some cultivated Allium species. Genome 48:511-520.
  27. Skvortsov, A. K., ed. 2006. Flora of the Lower Volga region 1:340-341.
  28. Smith, B. M. & T. C. Crowther. 1995. Inbreeding depression and single cross hybrids in leek (Allium ampeloprasum subsp. porrum). Euphytica 86:87-94. Note: indicates that this tetraploid taxon (4x=32) has an open pollination system with 20% of self pollination
  29. Stearn, W. T. 1944. Notes on the genus Allium in the Old World. Herbertia 11:11-34.
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Common names
English
leek –
Arabic
kurrat abou shousha –
French
poireau –
German
Lauch –
Porree –
Winter-Lauch –
Italian
porro –
Portuguese
alho-porró –
Spanish
ajo porro –
puerro –
Spanish (Latin America)
poro –
Transcribed Chinese
jiu cong –
Transcribed Korean
riikeu –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    also cult. elsewhere
2CultivatedAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateChinaChina  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
2CultivatedAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaWestern Australia 
2CultivatedEurope Europe  
2CultivatedNorthern America United States  
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaCaribbeanWest Indies  
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaArgentina  
6Other    probable origin e. Mediterranean region
Cultivated

  • REGION:
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China
Asia-Tropical
  • MALESIA: Indonesia
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [Western Australia]
Europe
  • REGION: Europe
Northern America
  • REGION: United States
Southern America
  • CARIBBEAN: West Indies
  • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina
Other (probable origin e. Mediterranean region)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Food additivesflavoring Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Human foodvegetable Mathew, B. 1996. A review of Allium sect. Allium 70.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=2351. Accessed 29 April 2025.