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 online. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 22. Reference page.

Hassler, M. 2019. Amaranthus thunbergii. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, 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 online. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 22. Reference page.

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

Tropicos.org 2019. Amaranthus thunbergii. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 22 Aug. 2019.

Afrikaans: Rooimisbredie
English: Thunberg's Amaranth

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