Taxon: Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb.
Genus: Alternanthera
Family: Amaranthaceae. Also placed in:
Chenopodiaceae
Nomen number: 101502
Place of publication: Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 24:36. 1879 (Symb. fl. argent.)
Name verified on: 12-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Mar-2004
No species priority site assigned.
NO ACCESSIONS IN
NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
- A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious
weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links
to state information or web documents:
-
ALª*, AZª°, CAª, FLª, PRª, SCª, TXª.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
|
- Link to noxious weed information from

- alligator-weed (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- xi han lian zi cao (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- piriquito (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
Native:
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela Brazil: Brazil Western South America: Bolivia; Peru Southern South America: Argentina [n.]; Paraguay; Uruguay
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- naturalized in North America, tropical Asia, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies
- Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi.
1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
- Burkart, A. E., ed.
1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios. (F EntreR)
- Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants.
Florida state list aquatic & wetland noxious weeds - from Department of Environmental Protection - on-line document. (FL AquaNoxweed)
- Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston.
1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex)
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
- Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed.
1986–. Flora of the Guianas. (F Guianas)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Long, R. W. & O. Lakela.
1971. A flora of tropical Florida. (F TFla)
- Mears.
1977. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia
129:14–16.
- Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson.
1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
- Reitz, R., ed.
1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense. (F SCatarin)
- Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds.
1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. (F VenGuay)
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
- Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds.
1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
[mentions].
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb.:
- Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
- Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?101502 (09 February 2010)
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