Chenopodium quinoa Willd.
First published in Sp. Pl. ed. 4. 1: 1301 (1798)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Ecuador to NW. Argentina. It is an annual and grows primarily in the subtropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as a medicine and for food.
Distribution
Native to:
Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Chile North, Ecuador, Peru
Introduced into:
Argentina Northeast, Chile Central, Chile South, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Chenopodium album var. quinoa (Willd.) Alef. in Landw. Fl.: 277 (1866)
- Chenopodium album subsp. quinoa (Willd.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 548 (1891)
- Chenopodium album var. quinoa (Willd.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 267 (1898)
- Chenopodium hircinum var. quinoa (Willd.) Aellen in Ber. Schweiz. Bot. Ges. 38: 15 (1929)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Chenopodium album var. laciniatum Alef. in Landw. Fl.: 277 (1866)
- Chenopodium album convar. leucocarpum Alef. in Landw. Fl.: 276 (1866)
- Chenopodium album subvar. leucospermum (Schrad.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 267 (1898)
- Chenopodium album var. moquinii Alef. in Landw. Fl.: 277 (1866)
- Chenopodium album var. purpurascens (B.Juss. ex Jacq.) Alef. in Landw. Fl.: 277 (1866)
- Chenopodium album f. subspontaneum Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 267 (1898)
- Chenopodium atriplicis L.f. in Suppl. Pl.: 171 (1782), nom. superfl.
- Chenopodium ccoyto Toro Torr. in Revista Univ. (Puno) 1: 51 (1964)
- Chenopodium ccuchi-huila Toro Torr. in Revista Univ. (Puno) 1: 51 (1964)
- Chenopodium chilense Pers. in Syn. Pl. 1: 294 (1805), pro syn.
- Chenopodium guinoa Krock. in Fl. Siles., Suppl. 1: 301 (1823), orth. var.
- Chenopodium hircinum var. andinum Aellen in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 26: 122 (1929)
- Chenopodium hircinum f. laciniatum (Moq.) Aellen in Ber. Schweiz. Bot. Ges. 38: 19 (1929)
- Chenopodium hircinum subsp. milleanum (Aellen) Aellen in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 26: 122 (1929)
- Chenopodium hircinum var. rhombicum Aellen in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 26: 122 (1929)
- Chenopodium hircinum f. rubescens (Moq.) Aellen in Ber. Schweiz. Bot. Ges. 38: 19 (1929)
- Chenopodium hircinum f. viridescens (Moq.) Aellen in Ber. Schweiz. Bot. Ges. 38: 19 (1929)
- Chenopodium leucospermum Schrad. in Index Seminum (GOET, Gottingensis) 1834: 2 (1834)
- Chenopodium punctulatum Scop. in Delic. Fl. Faun. Insubr. 1: 26 (1786), nom. rej. prop.
- Chenopodium purpurascens B.Juss. ex Jacq. in Hort. Bot. Vindob. 3: 43 (1777), nom. rej. prop.
- Chenopodium purpurascens var. lanceolatum Moq. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 67 (1849)
- Chenopodium purpurascens var. punctulatum Moq. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 67 (1849)
- Chenopodium quinoa var. laciniatum Moq. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 66 (1849)
- Chenopodium quinoa var. lutescens Hunz. in Revista Argent. Agron. 10: 316 (1943)
- Chenopodium quinoa var. melanospermum Hunz. in Revista Argent. Agron. 10: 317 (1943)
- Chenopodium quinoa subsp. milleanum Aellen in Amer. Midl. Naturalist 30: 73 (1943)
- Chenopodium quinoa var. orbicans Murr in Magyar Bot. Lapok 3: 39 (1904)
- Chenopodium quinoa f. purpureum Aellen in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 26: 124 (1929)
- Chenopodium quinoa var. rubescens Moq. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 66 (1849)
- Chenopodium quinoa var. viridescens Moq. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 66 (1849)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
- Danihelka, J. Chrtek, J. & Kaplan, Z. (2012). Checklist of vascular plants of the Czech Republic. Preslia. Casopsi Ceské Botanické Spolecnosti 84: 647-811.
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
- Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i-viii, 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden.
- Zuloaga, F.O. & Belgrano, M.J. (eds.) (2020). Flora Argentina. Flora vascular de la República Argentina 19(1): 1-378. INTA, IMBIV & IBODA.
- Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.
Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
Useful Plants of Boyacá Project
- Crop wild relative Inventory https://www.cwrdiversity.org/checklist/ in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/
- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Castro, C. (Proveedor de metadatos), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). Versión 11.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
- National Research Council (US). Panel on Underexploited Tropical Plants with Promising Economic Value, & United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Science. (1975). Underexploited Tropical Plants with Promising Economic Value: Report of an Ad Hoc Panel of the Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation, Board on Science and Technology for International Development, Commission on International Relations (Vol. 16). National Academies.
- Pérez-Arbeláez, E. (1996). Plantas útiles de Colombia: edición aumentada, 4a edición. Fondo FEN Colombia.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Berry, M. (2021). Adventures and aliens news 24. BSBI News 148: 37-44.
- Danihelka, J. Chrtek, J. & Kaplan, Z. (2012). Checklist of vascular plants of the Czech Republic. Preslia. Casopsi Ceské Botanické Spolecnosti 84: 647-811.
- Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.
Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
- Dempewolf, H., Eastwood, R. J., Guarino, L., Khoury, C. K., Müller, J. V. & Toll, J. (2014). Adapting agriculture to climate change: a global initiative to collect, conserve, and use crop wild relatives. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 38, 369-377.
- Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
- Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
- FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
- GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
- GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
- García Castro, N. J. (2011). Plantas nativas empleadas en alimentación en Colombia. Instituo de Investigaciones Biológicas Alexander von Humboldt. http://repository.humboldt.org.co/handle/20.500.11761/31275
- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
- Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
- Plants for malaria, plants for fever: Medicinal species in Latin America, a bibliographic survey: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
- Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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s.coll. [Cat. no. 6955], India | Chenopodium purpurascens | K001126351 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 6955], India | Chenopodium purpurascens | K001126352 | Yes |
Sources
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Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
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Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible
- ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Living Collection Database
- Common Names from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Living Collection https://www.kew.org/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- ColPlantA database
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Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Useful Plants of Boyacá Project
- ColPlantA database
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/