Taxon: Chenopodium hircinum Schrad.

Genus:

Chenopodium

Family:

Chenopodiaceae

Subfamily:

Chenopodioideae

Tribe:

Chenopodieae

Nomen number:

409938

Place of publication:

Index sem. hort. acad. gotting. 1833:2. 1833

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

10-feb-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 18-oct-2018

Species priority site is:

North Central Regional PI Station (NC7)

Accessions:

4 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

(=) Chenopodium hircinum var. rhombicum Aellen

Common names:

foetid goosefoot (Source: BSBI) - English
Bocks-Gänsefuß (Source: Zander ed17) - German

Economic Importance:

Gene sources: primary genetic relative of quinoa (fide Econ Bot 44(suppl. 3):100. 1990)
Gene sources: probable progenitor of quinoa (fide H. D. Wilson, Econ Bot 42:478-494. 1988)

Distributional Range:

Native

Southern America

BRAZIL: Brazil
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

Adventive

Europe

NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Hungary, Poland
EASTERN EUROPE: Ukraine

Naturalized

Europe

MIDDLE EUROPE: Germany

References:

Botanical Society of the British Isles BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). (BSBI)
Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. 1993 (L Peru)
Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002 (Zander ed17)
Euro+Med Editorial Committee Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). (EuroMed Plantbase)
Wilson, H. D. 1988. Quinua biosystematics II: Free-living populations Econ. Bot. 42:478-494.
Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74. 1996, 1999 (L Argent)

Check other web resources for Chenopodium hircinum Schrad. :

Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=409938. Accessed 7 junio 2026.