Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Morocarpus foliosum Moench, Methodus 342. (1794) (nom. illeg. superfl., based on Blitum virgatum L.)
  • Chenopodium virgatum (L.) Ambrosi, Fl. Tirolo Mer. 2: 179. (1857), nom. illeg. (later homonym of Chenopodium virgatum Thunb. 1815)
  • Chenopodium foliosum Asch., Fl. Brandenburg 1: 572. (1864)

• Heterotypic (ref. Freitag et al. 2001)
  • Chenopodium blitum F.Muell., Select Pl., Additions: 11. (1874)

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum, Tomus I: 4.

• Moench, C. 1794. Methodus Plantas Horti Botanici et Agri Marburgensis. 780 pp., Marburgi Cattorum: Nova Libraria Academiae. BHL Reference page. : 342

• Ambrosi, F. 1857. Flora del Tirolo Meridionale 2. Padova, A. Sicca. BHL Reference page. : 179

• Ascherson, P.F.A. 1864. Flora der Provinz Brandenburg, der Altmark und des Herzogthums Magdeburg. Erste Abtheilung. A. Hirschwald, Berlin. Biblioteca Digital Reference page. : 572.

• Mueller, F.v 1874. Additions to the lists of the principal timber trees and other select plants for Victorian industrial culture. Melbourne, Stillwell and Knight. (online) Reference page. : 11

Additional references

• Fuentes-Bazan, S., Uotila, P. & Borsch, T. 2012. A novel phylogeny-based generic classification for Chenopodium sensu lato, and a tribal rearrangement of Chenopodioideae (Chenopodiaceae). Willdenowia 42(1): 5–24. DOI: 10.3372/wi42.42101 Full text PDF Reference page. : 17
• Freitag, H., Hedge, I.C, Jafri, S.M.H, Kothe-Heinrich, G., Omer, S. & Uotila, P. 2001. Chenopodiaceae. In. Flora of Pakistan 204. eFloras 2008. Reference page. : Chenopodium foliosum

Links

• Hassler, M. 2018. Blitum virgatum. 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. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 July 18.
• International Plant Names Index. 2016. Blitum virgatum. Published online. Accessed Feb. 24 2016.
• The Plant List 2013. Blitum virgatum in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2016 Feb. 24.
• Tropicos.org 2016. Blitum virgatum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 24 Feb. 2016.