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Taxon:
Allium cepa
L.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Allium
Subgenus:
Cepa
Section:
Cepa
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:
Allioideae
Tribe:
Allieae
Nomen number:
2244
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:300. 1753
Protologue link:
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358319
Typification:
View in Linnean Typification Project
Verified:
07/09/1997
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Allium cepa
L. var.
aggregatum
G. Don
(0 active accession[s])
Allium cepa
L. var.
cepa
(0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Allium cumaria
Buch.-Ham., nom. inval.
No images
Reference(s)
Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds.
Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
www.skud.info
Balick, M. J. et al.
2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85
Boulos, L.
1999-. Flora of Egypt
Brewster, J. L.
1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 3:5.
Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson.
1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning
Note:
poisonous
Davis, P. H., ed.
1965-1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs
Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage
Euro+Med Editorial Committee.
Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.emplantbase.org/home.html
Everest, S. L.
1981. Poisonous plants of Australia.
Note:
poisonous
FNA Editorial Committee.
1993-. Flora of North America.
URL:
http://floranorthamerica.org/
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
URL:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Allium+cepa&quantity=1
Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
URL:
http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:2422827336895397#
Hoang, H.-D. et al.
1997. Additional notes to the checklist of Korean cultivated plants (5). Consolidated summary and indexes. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 44:353.
URL:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/10722
Instituto de Botánica Darwinion.
2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
URL:
http://www2.darwin.edu.ar/Proyectos/FloraArgentina/FA.asp
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
International Seed Testing Association.
1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds.
1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75
Kala, C. P. et al.
2004. Prioritization of medicinal plants on the basis of available knowledge, existing practices and use value status in Uttaranchal, India. Biodivers. & Conservation 13:459.
URL:
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/evolutionary+%26+developmental+biology/journal/10531
Kellerman, T. S. et al.
1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa
Note:
poisonous
Kingsbury, J. M.
1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
Note:
poisonous
Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934-1964. Flora SSSR.
Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann.
1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants
Note:
poisonous
Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
Mansfeld, R.
1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Messiaen, C.-M. et al.
1993. Les
Allium
alimentaires reproduits par voie végétative. 1-230.
Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:75
Munro, D. B.
Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.cbif.gc.ca/pls/pp/poison?p_x=px
Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970-. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
Personal Care Products Council.
INCI
URL:
http://www.personalcarecouncil.org/public/what-inci
Peterka, H. et al.
1997. Interspecific hybrids between onion (
Allium cepa
L.) with S-cytoplasm and leek (
Allium ampeloprasum
L.). Theor. Appl. Genet. 94:383-389.
URL:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/122
Note:
triploid hybrids from
Allium cepa
and
A. ampeloprasum
carried S-cytoplasm of onion conferring CMS
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds.
1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 8:64-71.
URL:
http://proseanet.org
Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark.
1946-1976. Flora of Guatemala.
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964-1980. Flora europaea.
Walker, E.
1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
URL:
http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
onion –
Reference(s)
shallot –
Reference(s)
Arabic
basal –
Reference(s)
Italian
cipolla –
Reference(s)
Swedish
lök –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Korean
ogba –
Reference(s)
yangba –
Reference(s)
Distribution
Exportable format
order_code
Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
2
Cultivated
Africa
Africa
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Caucasus
Armenia
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Caucasus
Azerbaijan
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Caucasus
Georgia
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Caucasus
Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia
Ciscaucasia
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
China
China
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Eastern Asia
Korea
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Eastern Asia
Taiwan
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Middle Asia
Kazakhstan
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Middle Asia
Kyrgyzstan
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Middle Asia
Tajikistan
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Middle Asia
Turkmenistan
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Middle Asia
Uzbekistan
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Russian Far East
Russian Federation-Far East
Far East
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Siberia
Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia
Eastern Siberia
2
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Siberia
Russian Federation-Western Siberia
Western Siberia
2
Cultivated
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
India
2
Cultivated
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Indochina
2
Cultivated
Asia-Tropical
Malesia
Philippines
2
Cultivated
Asia-Tropical
Papuasia
Papua New Guinea
2
Cultivated
Australasia
Australia
Australia
2
Cultivated
Europe
Europe
2
Cultivated
Northern America
Canada
2
Cultivated
Northern America
Mexico
2
Cultivated
Northern America
United States
2
Cultivated
Southern America
Brazil
Brazil
2
Cultivated
Southern America
Caribbean
West Indies
2
Cultivated
Southern America
Central America
Central America
Cultivated
Africa
REGION:
Africa
Asia-Temperate
CAUCASUS:
Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia
[Ciscaucasia],
Armenia
,
Azerbaijan
,
Georgia
SIBERIA:
Russian Federation-Western Siberia
[Western Siberia],
Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia
[Eastern Siberia]
MIDDLE ASIA:
Kazakhstan
,
Kyrgyzstan
,
Tajikistan
,
Turkmenistan
,
Uzbekistan
RUSSIAN FAR EAST:
Russian Federation-Far East
[Far East]
CHINA:
China
EASTERN ASIA:
Korea
,
Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India
PAPUASIA:
Papua New Guinea
INDO-CHINA:
Indochina
MALESIA:
Philippines
Australasia
AUSTRALIA:
Australia
Europe
REGION:
Europe
Northern America
REGION:
Canada
,
Mexico
,
United States
Southern America
CARIBBEAN:
West Indies
CENTRAL AMERICA:
Central America
BRAZIL:
Brazil
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Medicines
folklore
fide Ency CNatIn; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):98. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Biodiv Conserv 13:459. 2004
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Vertebrate poisons
mammals
to livestock fide Kellerman et al.; Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann; Everist; Cooper & Johnson ed2
Kellerman, T. S. et al.
1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa
Note:
poisonous
Name
References