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Taxon: Amaranthus blitum L.

Genus: Amaranthus subgenus: Albersia
Family: Amaranthaceae.
Nomen number: 2788
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:990. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comments:
  • J. D. Hooker (1885) was apparently the first to unite A. blitum L. and A. lividus L., two names of equal priority, and he selected A. blitum
  • review history of nomenclature proposal concerning this name from the Smithsonian Institution's database
Name verified on: 04-Feb-2003 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 04-Feb-2003
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • Guernsey pigweed   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • livid amaranth   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  • purple amaranth   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • slender amaranth   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • ao tou xian   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • amarante livide   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • aufsteigender Amarant   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • aufsteigender Fuchsschwanz   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  • aufsteigender Fuchsschwanz   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German   [Amaranthus blitum subsp. blitum]
  • ausgerandeter Fuchsschwanz   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German   [Amaranthus blitum subsp. emarginatus]
  • Ufer-Fuchsschwanz   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German   [Amaranthus blitum subsp. emarginatus]
  • bledo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • mållamarant   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
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Economic importance:

  • Human food: vegetable   (fide Pl Res SEAs 8:84. 1993)
  • Weed   (fide Weed TabCIBA. 1968, as Amaranthus lividus)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
    South Tropical Africa: Malawi
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Iran; Turkey
    Middle Asia: Turkmenistan
    China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Zhejiang
    Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
    Indo-China: Laos; Vietnam
    Malesia: Indonesia
  • EUROPE
    Middle Europe: Austria; Hungary
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy
    Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized

      Cultivated:
  • AFRICA
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Uganda
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India
  • EUROPE
    Southeastern Europe: Greece

      Other:
  • exact native range obscure

References:

  • PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
  • Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
  • Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. [= A. blitum var. blitum].
  • Brenan, J. P. M. & C. C. Townsend. 1980. (540) Proposal to reject Amaranthus blitum L. (Amaranthaceae) under Art. 69 in favor of A. lividus L. Taxon 29:695–696.
  • Brummitt, R. K. 1984. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 27. Taxon 33:298. [rejection proposal not recommended].
  • Costea, M. & F. J. Tardif. 2003. The biology of Canadian weeds. 126. Amaranthus albus L., A. blitoides S. Watson and A. blitum L. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 83:1039–1065.
  • Costea, M. et al. 2001. Notes on some little known Amaranthus taxa (Amaranthaceae) in the United States. Sida 19:977–986.
  • Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. [= A. lividus L.].
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
  • Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. [= A. lividus L.].
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
  • Fillias, F. et al. 1980. Amaranthus blitum vs. A. lividus (Amaranthaceae). Taxon 29:149–150.
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
  • Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
  • Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. [= A. lividus L.].
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
  • Hügin, G. 1987. Einige Bemerkungen zu wenig bekannten Amaranthus - Sippen (Amaranthaceae) Mitteleuropas. Willdenowia 16:455.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
  • Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 8:84.
  • Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. [= A. lividus L.].
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. [= A. lividus L.].
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. [= A. lividus L.].
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
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Synonyms:


Check other web resources for Amaranthus blitum L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • 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.

Check other web resources for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google 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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