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Gomphrena globosa 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
7.1. Gomphrena globosa L., Sp. Pl. 1: 224. 1753.
Lectotype (designated by Townsend 1974: 46):— Herb. Linn. No. 319.1 (LINN!, image of the lectotype available at https://linnean-online. org/3568/).
Alien status:—Neophyte species native to Mexico, Central America, and north and centeral South America, whereas it is alien in East Europe, central and south Africa, regions of South Asia, and Australia (POWO 2023). Cultivated in Saudi Arabia.
Occurrence in Saudi Arabia:― According to Chaudhary (1998: 243) this species is only cultivated in Saudi Arabia (as an ornamental plant) (see also Miller & Cope 1996). Further surveys are needed to verify its occurrence as an escaped alien (probably casual).
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 237, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.626.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10212988
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- LINN
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
- Genus
- Gomphrena
- Species
- globosa
- 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.
- POWO (2023) Plants of the World Online. Available from: https: // powo. science. kew. org / (accessed: 12 September 2023).
- Chaudhary, S. A. (1998) Flora of the Kingdom of the Saudi Arabia, vol. 1. Ministry of Agriculture & Water, Riyadh, 692 pp.
- Miller, A. G. & Cope, T. A. (1996) Flora of the Arabian peninsula and Socotra, vol. 1. Edinburgh university press, Edinburgh, 586 pp.