Alternanthera littoralis

Alternanthera littoralis (fig. 2)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Varietates: A. l. var. guineensis – A. l. var. littoralis – A. l. var. sparmannii

Alternanthera littoralis Beauv., Fl. Oware 2: 72. (1818)

Type: "Flore d'Oware et du Bénin". Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F. #s.n. Type: G00008890.

Homotypic
- Alternanthera littoralis Beauv. ex Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 365. (1849), nom. inval. in syn. (isonym)

Heterotypic (ref. Hassler 2019)
- Alternanthera achyranthoides Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. (Hiern) 1: 896. (1900) (sphalm. Forsk.).
- Alternanthera maritima var. africana Hauman, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 18: 115. (1946)

Native distribution areas:

Africa
- West Tropical Africa
  - Benin, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone
- West-Central Tropical Africa
  - Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Is., Zaire
- South Tropical Africa
  - Angola (incl. Cabinda)
- Western Indian Ocean
  - Madagascar

Moquin-Tandon, A. 1849. Amarantaceae. In: De Candolle, A.P. (ed.): Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 13(2): 231–424. Masson, Paris. BHL. Reference page. : 365

Hauman, L. 1946. Sur quelques Amaranthacées nouvelles ou mal connues de l'Afrique Équatoriale. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État à Bruxelles 18: 105-116. JSTOR Reference page. : 115

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Alternanthera littoralis in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Oct. 14.

Hassler, M. 2019. Alternanthera littoralis. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World (2019). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi, J., Penev L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Oct. 14.

International Plant Names Index. 2019. Alternanthera littoralis. Published online. Accessed Oct. 14 2019.

Tropicos.org 2019. Alternanthera littoralis . Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Oct. 14.

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