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:
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CA*, FL*, MA*, NC*, PR*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

- 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)
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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:
- 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)
- More:
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
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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?2713 (09 February 2010)
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