Summary
Place of publication:
Kulturpflanze 5:52. 1957
Comment:
- [or Raphanus sativus Rat-Tailed Radish Group]
- a nom. nov. for R. sativus var. caudatus (L.) Vilm. (non Alef. 1866)
Verified:
07/15/2010
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
- Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen
- Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6 Note: = Raphanus sativus convar. caudatus (L. f.) Pistrick
- Oltean, S. L. et al. 2010. Research on the variability of quantitative and qualitative traits in a population of Raphanus sativus L. var. caudatus for breeding purposes. Lucrari Stiintifice, Ser. hort. 53:29-34. Note: no additional information for this pblication
- Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
- Yamane, K. et al. 2009. Multiple origin and high genetic diversity of cultivated radish inferred from polymorphism in chloroplast simple sequence repeats. Breed. Sci. 59:55-65. Note: = Raphanus sativus var. caudatus
Common names
English
rat-tail radish – serpent radish – tail-pod radish – French
radis de Madras – radis serpent – German
Schlangenrettich – India (Hindi)
mungra – Indonesian
mougri – Transcribed Chinese
shu wei luo bo –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | lesser cult. elsewhere |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Sri Lanka | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Myanmar | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
Cultivated
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India, Sri Lanka
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INDO-CHINA:
Myanmar, Thailand
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MALESIA:
Indonesia, Malaysia
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | vegetable | pods, as R. sativus Rat-tailed Radish Group | Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 8:233. Note: = Raphanus sativus Rat-tailed Radish 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=457323.
Accessed 24 April 2025.