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Genus: Amaranthus subgenus: Albersia
Family: Amaranthaceae.
Nomen number: 2808
Place of publication: Sp. pl. ed. 2, 2:1405. 1763
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
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).
Accessions:
18 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
- green amaranth (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- pigweed (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- Prince-of-Wales-feather (Source: Aust Pl Common Names
) – English
- slender amaranth (Source: AH 505
) – English
- tropical green amaranth (Source: F NAmer
) – English
- zhou guo xian (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- amarante verte (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- grüner Amarant (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- cararu (Source: Food Feed Crops US
) – Portuguese
- bredo (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- carurú-comum (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- carurú-de-mancha (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- carurú-de-porco (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- carurú-de-soldado (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- bledo (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- More:
- More:
Naturalized: - widely naturalized tropical weed, adventive to warm-temperate regions
Cultivated:
- AFRICA
West-Central Tropical Africa: Gabon; Zaire
West Tropical Africa: Nigeria
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Malesia: Indonesia; Papua New Guinea
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Caribbean: West Indies
Other: - origin obscure, possibly South America
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
- Adams, C.
1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
- Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi.
1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
- Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston.
1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
- Costea, M. et al.
2001. Notes on some little known Amaranthus taxa (Amaranthaceae) in the United States.
Sida
19:986–988.
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds.
1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
- El-Hadidi, M. N. & M. S. Abdallah.
1980–. Flora of Egypt.
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed.
1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
- Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds.
1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
- Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
- Mansfeld, R.
1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
[= A. lividus var. ascendens].
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
- Ohwi, J.
1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Rechinger, K. H., ed.
1963–. Flora iranica.
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- Reitz, R., ed.
1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
- Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds.
1970–. Flora of Thailand.
- Terrell, E. E. et al.
1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
- Vibrans, H., ed.
Malezas de México (on-line resource).
- Wiggins, I. L. & D. M. Porter.
1971. Flora of the Galapagos islands.
[= A. lividus].
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Amaranthus viridis L.:
-
Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- 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.
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,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?2808 (22 May 2013)
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