Amaranthus dubius

Amaranthus dubius

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Amaranthaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Amaranthoideae
Genus: Amaranthus
Species: Amaranthus dubius

Name

Amaranthus dubius Mart. ex Thell., Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 38: 203. (1912)

id. in Aschers. & Graebn. Syn. Mitteleur. Fl.v. I. 265. (1914).

Neotype: Martial cultivated Erlangen Botanical Garden, ex herb. Schwoegrichen. Anonymous #s.n. M : M0107382.

Synonyms

Homotypic
- Amaranthus dubius Mart., Hort. Erlang. (1814) 197., nom. nud. (this is a preprint of Mem. Soc. Sci Nat. Cherbourg 38)

Heterotypic (ref. Hassler 2019)
- Amaranthus dubius var. crassespicatus Suess.
- Amaranthus flexuosus hort. ex Moq., Prodr. (de Candolle) 13(2): 260. (1849), nom. inval. in syn.
- Amaranthus hybridus f. acicularis Suess.
- Amaranthus tricolor var. tristis (Willd.) B.N.Mehrotra, B.S.Aswal & B.S.Bisht, Companion to Chopra's Gloss. Indian Medicin. Pl.: 9. (1987), nom. illeg. (later homonym of Amaranthus tricolor var. tristis (L.) Thell., 1914)
- Amaranthus tristis Willd., Hist. Amaranth. 21. (1790), nom. illeg. (later homonym of Amaranthus tristis L., 1753)
- Amaranthus tristis var. leptostachys Moq., Prodr. (de Candolle) 13(2): 260. (1849)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Northern America
- Mexico
  - Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest
Southern America
- Central America
  - Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua
- Caribbean
  - Aruba, Bahamas, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.
- Northern South America
  - Venezuela
- Western South America
  - Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Galápagos, Peru

Introduced elsewhere.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDGW – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Primary references

Thellung, A. 1912. La flore adventice de Montpellier. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg 38: 57–728. BHL Reference page. : 203

Additional references

eFloras 2008. Amaranthus dubius in Flora of North America . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Amaranthus dubius in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 15.

Hassler, M. 2019. Amaranthus dubius. 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 Aug. 15.

International Plant Names Index. 2019. Amaranthus dubius. Published online. Accessed Aug. 15 2019.

Tropicos.org 2019. Amaranthus dubius . Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 15.

Vernacular names

English: Red Spinach, Rau Den, Chinese Spinach, Spleen Amaranth
español: Pira Dulce, Bledo, Bleo
Kreyòl ayisyen: Zepina
lietuvių: Blužninis burnotis
中文: 莧菜

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