Identidad taxonómica
- Scientific name
- Zea mays mays Nal-tel
- Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
- Zea mays mays Nal-tel
- Name provenance
- Not recorded in the catalog
- Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
- Zea
- Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
- mays
- Infraspecific epithet: The word that follows the species name to name a unit below the species, such as a subspecies or a variety, for example mexicana in Zea mays subsp. mexicana.
- Nal-tel
- What this record represents: An operational category Biolítica uses to group the native varieties of a crop that share traits and origin, for example Mexico's maize races such as Tuxpeño. It is not a taxonomic rank: no nomenclature code recognizes it and external catalogs assign it no identifier. In cultivated-plant nomenclature its closest equivalent is the Group (Zea mays subsp. mays Tuxpeño Group).
- landrace
- Reference species
- Zea mays
Photos and conservation status
This record is not a species with its own taxon, so it shows neither photos nor a Red List category, not even those of its reference species.