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Taxon: Alternanthera spp.*

Genus: Alternanthera
Family: Amaranthaceae. Also placed in: Chenopodiaceae
Nomen number: 419815
Comment: *catch-all record for unidentified or unnamed plants of Alternanthera
Name verified on: 30-Jan-2002 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 30-Oct-2003
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
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:
ARª, PRª.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Check other databases for Alternanthera spp.:

  • 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.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy
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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
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?419815 (09 February 2010)

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