Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Bucholzia obovata M.Martens & Galeotti, Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 10: 348. (1843)
    • Type locality: Mexico: "...sur les rochers arides et volcaniques de la barranca de los Baños, près des sources thermales d'Acasonica, à une dizaine de lieues de Vera Cruz, région chaude de la côte."
    • Type: Mexico, 1840, Galeotti H.G. #444 . Holotype: BR BR0000006950422 (#440); Isotype: G .

• Homotypic
  • Telanthera obovata (M.Martens & Galeotti) Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 370. (1849)
  • Achyranthes obovata (M.Martens & Galeotti) Standl., J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 5: 74. (1915)
  • Alternanthera obovata (M.Martens & Galeotti) Standl., Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 8(1): 9. (1930), isonym

• Heterotypic (ref. Hassler 2019)
  • Gomphrena procumbens Pav. ex Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 370. (1849), nom. inval. in syn.

Primary references

• Millspaugh, C.F. 1898. Third contribution to the coastal and plain flora of Yucatan. Publications of the Field Columbian Museum. Botanical Series 1(4): 345–410. BHL Reference page. : 360

• Martens, M. & Galeotti, H.G. 1843. Enumeratio synoptica plantarum phanerogamicarum ab Henrico Galeotti in regionibus Mexicanis collectarum. Bulletins de l’Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles 10(1): 110-134 BHL, 208–224 BHL, 341–361 BHL. Reference page. : 348

• 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. : 370

• Standley, P.C. 1915. The application of the generic name Achyranthes. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 5: 72–76. BHL Reference page. : 74

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Alternanthera obovata 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. 16.
• Hassler, M. 2019. Alternanthera obovata. 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. 16.
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Alternanthera obovata. Published online. Accessed Oct. 16 2019.
• Tropicos.org 2019. Alternanthera obovata . Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Oct. 16.