Amaranthus graecizans

Amaranthus graecizans

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 graecizans
Varietates: A. g. var. graecizans – A. g. var. pachytepalus

Name

Amaranthus graecizans L., Sp. Pl. 2: 990. (1753)

Lectotype (designated by Fernald 1945, Rhodora 47: pl. 887.): USA: Virginia. John Clayton #442. BM BM000051563.

Synonyms

Homotypic
- Blitum graecizans (L.) Moench, Methodus 359. (1794)
- Glomeraria graecizans (L.) Cav., Elench. Pl. Hort. Matr. 16. (1803)
- Amaranthus blitum var. graecizans (L.) Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 263. (1849)
- Pyxidium graecizans (L.) Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 263. (1849), nom. inval. in syn.
- Amaranthus angustifolius subsp. graecizans (L.) Probst, Wolladventivfl. Mitteleur.: 74. (1949)
- Galliaria graecizans (L.) Nieuwl., Amer. Midl. Naturalist 3(9): 278. (1914)

Heterotypic (ref. Hassler 2019)
- Amaranthus angustifolius Lam., Encycl. 1: 115. (1783)
- Amaranthus angustifolius subsp. aschersonianus Thell., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. [Ascherson & Graebner]. 5: 309 (1914).
- Amaranthus angustifolius subsp. polygonoides (Moq.) Maire & Weiller, Maire, Fl. Afrique N. 8: 208. (1962)
- Amaranthus angustifolius var. silvestris (Vill.) Thell.
- Amaranthus angustifolius subsp. silvestris (Vill.) Wachter, in Henkels, Geill. Schoolfl. Nederl. ed. 11: 170. (1934)
- Amaranthus aschersonianus (Thell.) Chiov., Nuovo Giom Bot. Ital. ser. 2, 25. 103. (1919)
- Amaranthus blitum var. silvestris (Vill.) Moq., DC., Prodr. (Ed. A. DC.) 13 (2): 263. (1849)
- Amaranthus graecizans subsp. aschersonianus (Thell.) Costea, D.M.Brenner & Tardif, Econ. Bot. 57: 646. (2003)
- Amaranthus graecizans subsp. silvestris (Vill.) Brenan, Watsonia 4: 273. (1961)
- Amaranthus graecizans subsp. sylvestris (Vill.) O.Bolòs & Vigo, But. Inst. Catalana Hist. Nat., 38 Bot., 1: 89. (1974), orth. var.
- Amaranthus graecizans subsp. thellungianus (Nevski) Gusev, Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 57(5): 462. (1972)
- Amaranthus paolii Chiov., Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. ser. 2, 34: 845 (1927).
- Amaranthus roxburghianus var. aschersonianus (Thell.) N.C.Nair, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 73(1): 61. (1976)
- Amaranthus silvestris Vill., Cat. Jard. Pl. Strasbourg 111. (1807)
- Amaranthus thellungianus Nevski, Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 4: 311. (1937)
- Amaranthus thunbergii var. grandifolius Suess.
- Galliaria sylvestris (Vill.) Bubani, Fl. Pyren. (Bubani) 1: 186. (1897)
- Pyxidium sylvestre (Vill.) Friche-Joset & Montandon, Syn. Fl. Jura 260. (1856)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Europe
- Southwestern Europe
  - Baleares, France, Portugal, Spain
- Southeastern Europe
  - Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia
Africa
- Northern Africa
  - Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco
- Macaronesia
  - Azores, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Madeira
- West Tropical Africa
  - Benin, Burkina, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo
- West-Central Tropical Africa
  - Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gulf of Guinea Is., Rwanda, Zaïre
- Northeast Tropical Africa
  - Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan
- East Tropical Africa
  - Kenya, Tanzania
- South Tropical Africa
  - Angola, Zimbabwe
Asia-Temperate
- Western Asia
  - Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Sinai, Turkey
- Arabian Peninsula
  - Gulf States, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Introduced into: Austria, Belgium, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Djibouti, Germany, Hungary, Krym, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Northwest European Russia, Romania, Sardegna, South Australia, Switzerland, Tasmania, Turkmenistan, Victoria, Western Sahara.

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

References

Primary references

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum, Tomus II: 990..

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Amaranthus graecizans 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. 19.

Hassler, M. 2019. Amaranthus graecizans. 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. 19.

International Plant Names Index. 2019. Amaranthus graecizans. Published online. Accessed Aug. 19 2019.

Tropicos.org 2019. Amaranthus graecizans . Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 19.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Griechischer Fuchsschwanz
English: Mediterranean amaranth
suomi: Kreikanrevonhäntä
hornjoserbsce: Grjekski šćěrjenc
svenska: Grekamarant

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