Amaranthus cruentus L.
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
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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
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.