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Amaranthus cruentus L.

  • 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

4.5. Amaranthus cruentus L., Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 1269. 1759.

Lectotype (designated by Townsend 1974: 12):— Herb. Linn. No. 1117.25 (LINN!, image of the lectotype available at http://linnean-online.org/11651/).

= Amaranthus flavus L., Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 1269. 1759.

Lectotype (designated by Iamonico 2014a: 147):— Herb. Linn. No. 1117.23 (LINN!, image of the lectotype available at http://linnean-online.org/11649/).

= Amaranthus paniculatus L., Sp. Pl., ed. 2. 2: 1406. 1763.

Lectotype (designated by El Hadidi & El Hadidy 1981: 37):— Herb. Linn. No. 1117.20 (LINN!, image of the lectotype available at http:// linnean-online.org/11646/).

= Amaranthus sanguineus L., Sp. Pl., ed. 2. 2: 1407. 1763.

Lectotype (designated by Iamonico 2014a: 148):— Herb. Linn. No. 1117.21 (LINN!, image of the lectotype available at http://linnean-online.org/11647/).

Alien status:― Neophyte, native to Central America; it can be considered as naturalized in Saudi Arabia (Chaudhary 1998, Hassan et al. 2022).

Occurrence in Saudi Arabia:― Hassan et al. (2022: 153) refers the occurrence in Saudi Arabia of Amaranthus cruentus by citing Chaudhary’s Flora of the Kingdom of the Saudi Arabia (Chaudhary 1998). Miller & Cope (1996: 288, 538) reported this species in Jazan nu with doubt. No specimen was traced by us. The sepcies remains doubtful as a member of the national flora.

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 page 233, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.626.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10212988

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Amaranthaceae
Genus
Amaranthus
Species
cruentus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype

References

  • Townsend, C. C. (1974) Amaranthaceae. In: Nasir, E. & Ali, S. I. (Eds.) Flora of West Pakistan, vol. 71. Ferozsons Press, Rawalpindi, pp. 1 - 49.
  • Iamonico, D. (2014 a) Lectotypification of Linnaean names in the genus Achyranthes L. (Amaranthaceae). Taxon 63 (2): 405 - 407. https: // doi. org / 10.12705 / 632.2
  • El Hadidi, N. & El Hadidy, A. M. H. (1981) Flora of Egypt. Amaranthaceae Juss. Taeckholmia, Additional Series 1 (2): 1 - 8.
  • Chaudhary, S. A. (1998) Flora of the Kingdom of the Saudi Arabia, vol. 1. Ministry of Agriculture & Water, Riyadh, 692 pp.
  • Hassan, A., Al-Shaye, N., Alghamdo, S., Shereen, Korany, M. & Iamonico, D. (2022) Taxonomic revision of the genus Amaranthus (Amaranthaceae) in Saudi Arabia. Phytotaxa 576 (2): 135 - 157. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / phytotaxa. 576.2.1
  • Miller, A. G. & Cope, T. A. (1996) Flora of the Arabian peninsula and Socotra, vol. 1. Edinburgh university press, Edinburgh, 586 pp.