Taxon: Amaranthus dubius Mart. ex Thell.

Common names:

• bledo   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• bledos malezas   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• brède de Malabar   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• carurú   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• pira   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• spleen amaranth   (Source: Food Feed Crops US )
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (used like spinach fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Central America
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

Other:

• naturalized in North America (FL in United States), Europe, Asia, & Africa

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
• 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].
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980- (F Peru)
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2. (Mansfeld)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Sauer, J. D. 1967. The grain amaranths and their relatives: a revised taxonomic and geographic survey. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 54:122–126.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
• Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds. 1989. A selection. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) A:34. [mentions].
• Wiggins, I. L. & D. M. Porter. 1971. Flora of the Galapagos islands. (F Galap)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Amaranthus dubius.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Amaranthus dubius. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Amaranthus dubius Mart. ex Thell.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• 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
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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