Cicer arietinum L. subsp. reticulatum (Ladiz.) Moreno & Cubero ex Del Guacchio & P.Caputo, 2022

Guacchio, E. Del & Caputo, P., 2022, Towards a rational nomenclature of cultivated plants: proposal of taxonomic reassessment of Cicer reticulatum (Fabaceae) and Spinacia turkestanica (Chenopodiaceae), Phytotaxa 558 (3), pp. 298-300 : 298

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.558.3.7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7010692
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA8796-FFA5-9A7B-FF2D-79882A3BB5F6
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Cicer arietinum L. subsp. reticulatum (Ladiz.) Moreno & Cubero ex Del Guacchio & P.Caputo
status	comb. nov. et stat. nov.

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Cicer arietinum L. subsp. reticulatum (Ladiz.) Moreno & Cubero ex Del Guacchio & P.Caputo View in CoL , comb. nov. et stat. nov.

≡ Cicer reticulatum Ladiz View in CoL , in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 34: 201. 1975 (basion.).

The wild ancestor of cultivated Spinach ( Spinacia oleracea L.) has been tentatively identified in the past in S. tetrandra Steven ex M.Bieb. or S. turkestanica on morphological grounds ( Andersen & Torp, 2011). However, molecular investigations established beyond any doubt that the central Asiatic S. turkestanica is the only wild relative of S. oleracea (e.g., Ku et al., 2017; Gyawali et al., 2021), toward which maternal introgression has been demonstrated ( She et al., 2022).