Amaranthus quitensis

Amaranthus quitensis

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 quitensis

Name

Amaranthus quitensis Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. [H.B.K.] 2(folio): 156 (1817)

Type: [Ecuador: Pichincha]: Río Guallabamba. [1802-06], F.W.H.A. von Humboldt & A.J.A. Bonpland #3082. Holotype: P P00136030.

Accepted by Hassler 2019. Considered as synonym of Amaranthus hybridus subsp. quitensis by Govaerts 2019.

Synonyms

Homotypic
- Amaranthus hybridus subsp. quitensis (Kunth) Costea & Carretero, Sida 19: 955. (2001)
- Amaranthus retroflexus subsp. quitensis (Kunth) O.Bolòs & Vigo, Butl. Inst. Catalana Hist. Nat., Secc. Bot. 38: 89. (1974)
- Amaranthus hybridus var. quitensis (Kunth) Covas, Darwiniana 5: 336. (1941)

Heterotypic
- Amaranthus quitensis var. stuckertianus Thell., in Asch. & Graebn., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. [Ascherson & Graebner]. 5, Abt. 1: 355. (1914)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Southern America
- Western South America
  - Bolivia, Ecuador, Galápagos, Peru
- Brazil
  - Brazil West-Central
- Southern South America
  - Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Paraguay, Uruguay

Introduced into: Azores, Baleares, Belgium, Brazil South, Cape Verde, Chile Central, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., France, Ontario, Spain

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

References

Primary references

Humboldt, A., Bonpland, A. & Kunth, C.S. 1817–1818 ["1817"]. Nova genera et species plantarum, quas in peregrinatione orbis novi collegerunt, descripserunt, partim adumbraverunt Amat. Bonpland et Alex. de Humboldt. Tomus 2 (folio ed.). 324 pp., tt. 97–192. Sumtibus Librariae Graeco-Latino-Germanicae, Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris]. e-rara.ch Reference page. : 156

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Amaranthus quitensis 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. 20.

Hassler, M. 2019. Amaranthus quitensis. 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. 20.

International Plant Names Index. 2019. Amaranthus quitensis. Published online. Accessed Aug. 20 2019.

Tropicos.org 2019. Amaranthus quitensis . Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 20.

USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Amaranthus quitensis in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed on 2019 Aug. 20.

Vernacular names

English: Mucronate Amaranth

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