Spinacia tetrandra
| Spinacia tetrandra | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus: | Spinacia |
| Species: | S. tetrandra |
| Binomial name | |
| Spinacia tetrandra | |
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Spinacia tetrandra is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae.[2] It is native to eastern Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Levant, Iraq, and western Iran.[1] An annual, it is a crop wild relative of spinach (Spinacia oleracea), having diverged from it some 6.3 million years ago.[2][3]
References
- 1 2 "Spinacia tetrandra Steven ex M.Bieb". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
- 1 2 Ribera, Arnau; Van Treuren, Rob; Kik, Chris; Bai, Yuling; Wolters, Anne-Marie A. (2021). "On the origin and dispersal of cultivated spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.)". Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 68 (3): 1023–1032. doi:10.1007/s10722-020-01042-y.
- ↑ She, Hongbing; Liu, Zhiyuan; Xu, Zhaosheng; Zhang, Helong; Wu, Jian; Wang, Xiaowu; Cheng, Feng; Charlesworth, Deborah; Qian, Wei (2024). "Insights into spinach domestication from genome sequences of two wild spinach progenitors, Spinacia turkestanica and Spinacia tetrandra". New Phytologist. 243 (1): 477–494. doi:10.1111/nph.19799. PMID 38715078.