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Achyranthes sicula

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt & azmeyw @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7605 - 9058
  • 2. Department of Biology, College of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia & naaalshaye @ pnu. edu. sa; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0447 - 8613
  • 3. Department of Environmental Biology, Univeristy of Rome Sapienza, 00185 Rome, Italy & duilio. iamonico @ uniroma 1. it; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5491 - 7568

Description

1.2. Achyranthes sicula (L.) All., Auct. Syn. Meth. Stirp. Hort. Regii Taur.: 41. 1773

≡ Achyranthes aspera var. sicula L., Sp. Pl.: 204. 1753.

Lectotype (designated by Iamonico 2014: 406): — Herb. Linn. No. 287.1 (LINN!, image of the lectotype available at https://linnean-online. org/2873/).

= Achyranthes argentea Lam., Encycl. 1: 545. 1785 ≡ Achyranthes aspera var. argentea (Lam.) Boiss., Fl. Orient. 4: 993. 1879.

Lectotype (designated by Raus 2022: 337): FRANCE. H[ortus] R[egius] Parisiensis (SEVH4073!, image of the lectotype available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.sev-h4073).

= Achyranthes argentea var. obovata Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 316. 1849.

Lectotype (designate here): ― SAUDI ARABIA, Mekkah, Locis cultis ad pagum Madara vallis Fadme prope Meccam, 24 november 1835, Schimper 944 (G00688924!, image available at http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/chg/adetail.php?id=668392&base=im g&lang=en); isolectotype at HBG503188! (image of the isolectotype available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/al.ap. specimen.hbg503188!).

Typification of the name Achyranthes argentea var. obovata:― Moquin-Tandon (1849: 316) proposed this new variety to distinguish forms of Achyranthes argentea (currently a heterotypic synonym of Achyranthes sicula: see Raus 2022) with leaves circular-ovate and abaxially villous; a syntype (”Prope Meccam (Schimp.! 914, in h. DC)”) was cited. We found this specimen at G (barcode G00688924) and it is here designated as the lectotype of Moquin-Tandon’s varietal name. According to the current concept in Achyranthes (see e.g., Tutin 1993, Robertson 2003, Iamonico 2017), A. argentea var. obovata is a heterotypic synonym of A. sicula. An isolectotype is deposited at HBG (HBG503188).

Chorology:― A species native to the south-eastern Mediterranean region, most of African countries, and Arabian Peninsula (Iamonico 2017, POWO 2023).

Occurrence in Saudi Arabia:― Al-Madinh, ʿAsīr, Jazan, and Mekkah (Miller & Cope 1996, Collenette 1999).

Specimina visa selecta:— SAUDI ARABIA. Mekkah, Locis cultis ad pagum Madara vallis Fadme prope Meccam, 24 november 1835, Schimper 944 (M0241524!).

Notes

Published as part of Hassan, Walaa A., Al-Shaye, Najla A. & Iamonico, Duilio, 2023, A critical inventory of the family Amaranthaceae s. str. in Saudi Arabia, pp. 223-246 in Phytotaxa 626 (4) on pages 228-229, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.626.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10212988

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Journal article: 10.11646/phytotaxa.626.4.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10212988 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/97224201FFF79016FF4C6A3485381136 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/219299904 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/279797/taxon/97224201FFF79016FF4C6A3485381136.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Event date
1835-11-24
Verbatim event date
1835-11-24
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Amaranthaceae
Genus
Achyranthes
Species
sicula
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype

References

  • Raus, Th. (2022) Taxonomic, nomenclatural and floristic review of Amaranthaceae of Greece and neighbouring countries. Willdenowia 52: 335 - 357. https: // doi. org / 10.3372 / wi. 52.52304
  • Moquin-Tandon, C. H. B. A. (1849) Amaranthaceae Juss. In: Candolle, A. P. De (Ed.) Prodromus systematics naturalis regni vegetabilis, vol. 13, part. 2. Treuttel & Wurtz, Paris, pp. 231 - 424.
  • Tutin, T. G. (1993) Achyranthes L. In: Tutin, T. G., Burges, N. A., Chater, A. O, Edmondson, J. R., Heywood, V. H., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. (Eds.) Flora Europaea (second edition), vol. 1. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 132.
  • POWO (2023) Plants of the World Online. Available from: https: // powo. science. kew. org / (accessed: 12 September 2023).
  • Miller, A. G. & Cope, T. A. (1996) Flora of the Arabian peninsula and Socotra, vol. 1. Edinburgh university press, Edinburgh, 586 pp.
  • Collenette, S. (1999) Wildflowers of Saudi Arabia. National commission for wildlife conservation and development (NCWCD), 799 pp.