- Family:
- Amaranthaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Chenopodium L.
Chenopodium quinoa Willd.

[CPLC]
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
- Distribution
- Cultivada en Colombia; Alt. 2200 - 2800 m.; Andes.
- Morphology General Habit
- Hierba
[UPFC]
- Distribution
- Biogeografic region: Andean. Elevation range: 2200–2800 m a.s.l. Cultivated in Colombia. Colombian departments: Bogotá DC, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Putumayo.
- Habit
- Herb.
- Ecology
- Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: shrubland, desert, artificial - terrestrial.
- Vernacular
- Achita, Arroz del perú, Canigua, Canihua, Jiura, Liccha, Quinoa, Quinua, Suba
[UPB]
The Useful Plants of Boyacá project
- Distribution
- Cultivated in Colombia.
- Ecology
- Alt. 2200 - 2800 m.
- Morphology General Habit
- Herb.
[UNAL]
Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/
- Vernacular
- alpaquina, alpaquinoa, alpaquinua, arrocillo, cenizo, pasca, quinoa, quinua, quinua cimarrona, suba
[UPB]
- Use Food
- Seeds - edible (Pérez Arbeláez 1996).
- Use Gene Sources
- Crop wild relatives which may possess beneficial traits of value in breeding programmes (State of the World's Plants 2016).
- Use Medicines Unspecified Medicinal Disorders
- Medicinal (Instituto Humboldt 2014).
Native to:
Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Chile North, Ecuador, Peru
Introduced into:
Argentina Northeast, Chile Central, Chile South, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain
- Chenopodium album subvar. leucospermum (Schrad.) Kuntze
- Chenopodium album subsp. quinoa (Willd.) Kuntze
- Chenopodium album f. subspontaneum Kuntze
- Chenopodium atriplicis L.f.
- Chenopodium ccoyto Toro Torr.
- Chenopodium ccuchi-huila Toro Torr.
- Chenopodium chilense Pers.
- Chenopodium guinoa Krock.
- Chenopodium hircinum var. andinum Aellen
- Chenopodium hircinum f. laciniatum (Moq.) Aellen
- Chenopodium hircinum subsp. milleanum (Aellen) Aellen
- Chenopodium hircinum var. quinoa (Willd.) Aellen
- Chenopodium hircinum var. rhombicum Aellen
- Chenopodium hircinum f. rubescens (Moq.) Aellen
- Chenopodium hircinum f. viridescens (Moq.) Aellen
- Chenopodium leucospermum Schrad.
- Chenopodium punctulatum Scop.
- Chenopodium purpurascens B.Juss. ex Jacq.
- Chenopodium quinoa var. laciniatum Moq.
- Chenopodium quinoa var. lutescens Hunz.
- Chenopodium quinoa var. melanospermum Hunz.
- Chenopodium quinoa subsp. milleanum Aellen
- Chenopodium quinoa var. orbicans Murr
- Chenopodium quinoa f. purpureum Aellen
- Chenopodium quinoa var. rubescens Moq.
- Chenopodium quinoa var. viridescens Moq.
- English
- Quinoa
- Spanish
- Quinua, quinoa, achita, canigua, suba, canihua, jiura, liccha, arroz del Perú.
Chenopodium quinoa Willd. appears in other Kew resources:
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 |
First published in Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 1: 1301 (1798)
Accepted by
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- 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.
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Useful Plants of Boyacá Project
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