Taxon: Chenopodium quinoa Willd. subsp. quinoa

Genus:

Chenopodium

Family:

Chenopodiaceae

Subfamily:

Chenopodioideae

Tribe:

Chenopodieae

Nomen number:

409941

Place of publication:

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

10-feb-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 17-jun-2008

Species priority site is:

North Central Regional PI Station (NC7)

Accessions:

36 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Other conspecific taxa:

Common names:

quinoa (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
petit riz (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
riz du Pérou (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
Quinoa (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
Reismelde (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
arroz del Perú (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
quingua (Source: Econ Bot) - Spanish
quinua (Source: Names Soukup) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

Harmful organism host: test organism for crop diseases (fide Virus Diseases 54, 59, 112. 1987)
Human food: pseudocereal (fide CultTropS)
Gene sources: primary genetic relative of quinoa (fide H. D. Wilson, Econ Bot 42:478-494. 1988)

Distributional Range:

Native

Southern America

WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, [Cordoba] Chile

Cultivated

Southern America

WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia (w.), Colombia, [Narino] Ecuador, Peru
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina (n.w.), Chile

References:

Converse, R. H., ed. Virus diseases of small fruits. USDA Agriculture Handbook 631. 1987 (Virus Diseases)
Fuentes, F. F. et al. 2009. Assessment of genetic diversity patterns in Chilean quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) germplasm using multiplex fluorescent microsatellite markers Conservation Genet. 10:369-377.
Instituto de Botánica Darwinion Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. (F ConoSur)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Rehm, S. & G. Espig The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. 1991 (CultTropS)
Soukup, J. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. (Names Soukup)
Wilson, H. D. 1988. Quinua biosystematics II: Free-living populations Econ. Bot. 42:478-494.

Check other web resources for Chenopodium quinoa Willd. subsp. quinoa :

Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
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=409941. Accessed 7 junio 2026.