Amaranthus thunbergii

Taxonavigation

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

Amaranthus thunbergii Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 262 (1849)

Type locality: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope.
Syntype: Thunberg herb Hook.
Syntype: South Africa: In sol. argillaceo Zitzikammae. 1839-03, Krauss, C.F.F. v. #s.n. Isosyntype: M0241407.

Replaced synonym
- Amaranthus albus Thunb., Fl. Cap. (Thunberg, ed. 2) 215. (1823), nom. illeg. (later homonym of Amaranthus albus L.)

Native distribution areas:

Africa
- West-Central Tropical Africa
  - Zaïre
- Northeast Tropical Africa
  - Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia
- East Tropical Africa
  - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
- South Tropical Africa
  - Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Southern Africa
  - Botswana, Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Swaziland

Introduced into: Germany, South Carolina, St.Helena.

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. : 262

Thunberg, C.P. & Schultes, J.A. (ed.) 1823. Flora Capensis: sistens plantas promontorii Bonae Spei Africes: secundum systema sexuale emendatum. (Ed. 2). Stuttgardtiae: J.G. Cottae. MDZReader Reference page. : 215

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Amaranthus thunbergii 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. 22.

Hassler, M. 2019. Amaranthus thunbergii. 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. 22.

International Plant Names Index. 2019. Amaranthus thunbergii. Published online. Accessed Aug. 22 2019.

Tropicos.org 2019. Amaranthus thunbergii . Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 22.

Afrikaans: Rooimisbredie
English: Thunberg's Amaranth

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