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Taxon: Alternanthera sessilis (L.) R. Br. ex DC.

Genus: Alternanthera
Family: Amaranthaceae. Also placed in: Chenopodiaceae
Nomen number: 2713
Place of publication: Cat. pl. horti monsp. 77. 1813
Comment: combination not validly made by R. Brown, Prodr. 1:417. 1810
Name verified on: 12-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 06-Dec-2007
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.
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:
CA*, FL*, MA*, NC*, PR*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • rabbit-meat   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • sessile joyweed   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  • lian zi cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • periquito-sessil   (Source: F SCatarin ) – Portuguese
  • bredo-d´água   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • perpétua   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic importance:

  • Human food: vegetable   (fide F Ceylon)
  • Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):109. 1999)
  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
    Eastern Asia: Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal
    Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
    Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere

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)
  • Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
  • Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes. (F Mascar)
  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
  • El-Hadidi, M. N. & M. S. Abdallah. 1980–. Flora of Egypt. (F Egypt Cairo)
  • 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].
  • Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador. (F Ecuador)
  • Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. (L Aust)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Mears. 1977. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 129(1):3–6.
  • Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
  • Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense. (F SCatarin)
  • Ross, J. 1972. The flora of Natal. (F Natal)
  • Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
  • Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand. (F Thailand)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr) [lists as A. sessilis (L.) DC.].
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Alternanthera sessilis (L.) R. Br. ex DC.:

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • 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:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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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