Taxon:  Brassica oleracea L. var. gongylodes L. (Brassica oleracea Kohlrabi Group)



Summary
Genus:
Brassica
Family:
Brassicaceae (alt. Cruciferae)
Tribe:
Brassiceae
Nomen number:
7676
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:667.  1753
Comment:
[or Brassica oleracea Kohlrabi Group]
Verified:
05/08/2010 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
54 (54  active, 52  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Brassica oleracea L. (64 active accession[s])
Brassica oleracea L. var. alboglabra (L. H. Bailey) Musil (23 active accession[s])
Brassica oleracea L. var. botrytis L. (939 active accession[s])
Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata L. (1042 active accession[s])
Brassica oleracea L. var. costata DC. (80 active accession[s])
Brassica oleracea L. var. gemmifera DC. (996 active accession[s])
Brassica oleracea L. var. italica Plenck (381 active accession[s])
Brassica oleracea L. var. medullosa Thell. (0 active accession[s])
Brassica oleracea L. var. oleracea (1 active accession[s])
Brassica oleracea L. var. palmifolia DC. (0 active accession[s])
Brassica oleracea L. var. ramosa DC. (0 active accession[s])
Brassica oleracea L. var. sabauda L. (0 active accession[s])
Brassica oleracea L. var. sabellica L. (0 active accession[s])
Brassica oleracea L. var. viridis L. (420 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Brassica gongylodes (L.) Mill.
Brassica oleracea L. subsp. gongylodes (L.) Schübl. & G. Martens

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Brassica caulorapa (DC.) Pasq.
Brassica oleracea L. var. caulorapa DC.

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Conservation Status

Reference(s)
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Common names
LANGUAGENAMEALTERNATE NAMENOTESEQCITATION
English cabbage turnip 1 Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
English kohlrabi 1 Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English stem turnip 1 Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
English turnip cabbage 1 Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
English turnip kale 1 Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Chinese pie lan 擘蓝 2 Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
French chou rave 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German Kohlrabi 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Italian cavolo rapa 2 Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Italian col rabano 2 Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Portuguese couve-rábano 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish col rábano 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish colinabo 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish colirrábano 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Transcribed Chinese pie lan 2 Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Transliterated Russian kol'rabi 2 Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    only cult.
Cultivated (only cult.)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Human foodvegetable Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
Human foodvegetable Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Human foodvegetabletubers of different colorsHammer, K. et al. 2013. The wild and the grown - Remarks about the botanical classification of Brassica. Acta Hort. 1005:49-59. Note: = Brassica oleracea subsp. capitata var. gongylodes
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grin-global.warwick.ac.uk/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=7676. Accessed 21 November 2024.