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Taxon:  Allium porrum L. var. sectivum Lueder (Allium porrum Pearl Onion Group)



Summary
Genus:
Allium
Subgenus:
Allium
Section:
Allium
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:
Allioideae
Tribe:
Allieae
Nomen number:
447591
Place of publication:
Briefe Bestellung eines Küchengartens 1:170. 1778
Comment:
[or Allium porrum Pearl Onion Group]
Verified:
12/23/2004 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Allium porrum L. (0 active accession[s])
Allium porrum L. var. kurrat (Schweinf. ex K. Krause) Seregin (0 active accession[s])
Allium porrum L. var. porrum (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Reference(s)
  1. Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
  2. Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6 Note: = Allium ampeloprasum Pearl-Onion Group
  3. 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. Note: this study showed that all tetraploid horticultural groups of Allium ampeloprasum including "pearl-onion" should be recognized as A. porrum
  4. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Common names
English
pearl onion –
Danish
perleleg –
Dutch
parel-look –
German
Perlzwiebel –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2CultivatedEuropeMiddle EuropeGermany  
2CultivatedEuropeMiddle EuropeNetherlands  
2CultivatedEuropeSoutheastern EuropeItaly  
Cultivated
Europe
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Germany, Netherlands
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Italy
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Human foodvegetablefor pickling fide Mansf Ency, as A. ampeloprasum Pearl-Onion GroupHanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6 Note: = Allium ampeloprasum Pearl-Onion Group
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=447591. Accessed 29 April 2025.