Table 1.

Summary of the 406 accessions of Phoenix spp. included in this study

Species	Origin	Status	No. of samples
Phoenix dactylifera	Morocco	Cultivated	15
	Mauritania	Cultivated	5
	Niger	Cultivated	20
	Algeria	Cultivated	30
	Tunisia	Cultivated	27
	Libya	Cultivated	7
	Nilotic Egypt	Cultivated	14
	Siwa, Egypt	Named types	109
		úšik #1	18
		úšik #2	22
		Uncultivated (abandoned oases)	27
	Sudan	Cultivated	3
	Iraq	Cultivated	13
	United Arab Emirates	Cultivated	20
	Oman	Cultivated	27
	Pakistan	Cultivated	38
Phoenix theophrasti	Crete/Turkey	Wild relative	9
Phoenix reclinata	Sub‐Saharan Africa	Wild relative	2

The species and the country/region of origin are provided along with the status. For Siwa current oasis, the status is set as follows: “named types,” for cultivated accessions for which we want to check the status; “úšik #1” and “úšik #2” which refer to accidental seedlings growing respectively in gardens (#1) or on the border of gardens or palm grove (#2). Were also analyzed uncultivated date palm accessions sampled in abandoned oases scattered in the desert surrounding the current Siwa Oasis (Figure 1).