Table 4.

Occurrence and morphological characteristics of the varieties cultivated in the Atlas Mountains region

Variety	Status	Sample size	Zones a	Categorization of the variety
Aberyoun	traditional	15	ZS2, ZS3	Tall DC-type, including mixtures with DW.
Chgira lbida	traditional	4	ZS1	Tall DW-type, including mixtures with DC and impurities for stature
Cocorit	modern	1	ZS1	Short DW-type
Ifermourgh	traditional	28	ZS2, ZS3, ZS6	Tall DC-type, including mixtures with DW. One DW outlier
Ilks	traditional	2	ZS3	No assignment. Tall mixture DW-DC
Irden taghezaft	traditional	6	ZS3, ZS4, ZS5	No assignment. Tall and great heterogeneity among populations for spike type.
Lbida touila	traditional	6	ZS1	Tall DW-type, including mixtures with DC and impurities for stature
Tabakhoucht	traditional	3	ZS2, ZS4	No assignment. Tall mixture DW-DC. One short outlier.
Taberyount	traditional	6	ZS2, ZS3, ZS5	Tall DC-type, including mixtures with DW. One DW outlier (ZS5)
Tamellalt	traditional	9	ZS1, ZS2, ZS5	Tall DW-type, including mixtures with DC.
Toumlilt	traditional	20	ZS1, ZS2, ZS4, ZS6	Tall DW-type, including mixtures with DC. One short outlier.
Zerbana	traditional	1	ZS4	No assignment. Tall mixture DW-DC

Sample size: number of sampled populations.

^a zones where populations of the variety have been sampled. In bold when the sample size was more than one in the zone.