Alternanthera pungens

Alternanthera pungens

Alternanthera pungens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Amaranthaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Gomphrenoideae
Genus: Alternanthera
Species: Alternanthera pungens

Name

Alternanthera pungens Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. [H.B.K.] 2: 206. (1818)

• Type locality: Venezuela: "Crescit in ripa Orinoci prope nobilem cataractam Maypurensium".
• Humboldt & Bonpland #s.n.

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Illecebrum pungens (Kunth) Spreng., Syst. Veg., ed. 16 [Sprengel] 1: 820 (1824).
  • Telanthera pungens (Kunth) Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 371 (1849).
• Heterotypic (ref. Govaerts 2019, Hassler 2019)
  • Achyranthes leiantha (Seub.) Standl., J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 5: 73 (1915).
  • Achyranthes lorentzii (Uline) Standl., J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 5: 74 (1915).
  • Achyranthes obovata Pav. ex Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 359 (1849), nom. inval. in syn. (non Achyranthes obovata (M.Martens & Galeotti) Standl. 1915).
  • Achyranthes repens L., Sp. Pl. 1: 205 (1753).
  • Alternanthera achyrantha R.Br. ex Sweet, Hort. Suburb. Lond. 48 (1818).
  • Alternanthera achyrantha var. echinata (Sm.) Maiden, Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales (1910).
  • Alternanthera achyrantha var. leiantha Seub., Fl. Bras. (Martius) 5(1): 183 (1875).
  • Alternanthera ciliata Poepp. ex Seub., Fl. Bras. (Martius) 5(1): 183 (1875).
  • Alternanthera echinata Sm., Cycl. [A. Rees], (London ed.) 39: Addenda, Alternanthera no. 10 (1819).
  • Alternanthera leiantha (Seub.) Alain, Contr. Ocas. Mus. Hist. Nat. Colegio De La Salle no. 9: 1 (1950).
  • Alternanthera lorentzii Uline, Publ. Field Columb. Mus., Bot. Ser. 1: 421 (1899).
  • Alternanthera pungens var. leiantha (Seub.) Suess., Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München heft 4: 103 (1952).
  • Alternanthera pungens var. monocephala (Bolus & Marcos) O.Bolòs & Vigo, Butl. Inst. Catalana Hist. Nat., Secc. Bot. 38(1): 89 (1974).
  • Alternanthera pungens f. pauciflora Suess., Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München heft 2: 68 (1950).
  • Alternanthera thomensis Gand., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 66: 223 (1919).
  • Bucholzia spinescens Gillies ex Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 359 (1849), nom. inval. in syn.
  • Celosia echinata Humb. & Bonpl. ex Schult., Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis [Roemer & Schultes] 5: 531 (1819).
  • Desmochaeta sordida Bunbury, Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1: 109 (1841).
  • Guilleminea procumbens Rojas Acosta, Cat. Hist. Nat. Corrientes 176 (1897).
  • Illecebrum obliquum Schumach. & Thonn., Beskr. Guin. Pl. 142 (1827).
  • Illecebrum sinense hort ex Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 359 (1849), nom. inval. in syn.
  • Paronychia achyrantha Desf., Tabl. École Bot., ed. 2. 54 (1815).
  • Pityranthus crassifolius Mart., Denkschr. Akad. Muench. v. (1817) 179.
  • Steiremis repens (L.) Raf., Fl. Tellur. 3: 41 (1837).
• (+ ref. Hassler 2019)
  • Achyranthes mucronata Lam., Encycl. [J. Lamarck & al.] 1(2): 547 (1785).
  • Achyranthes radicans Cav., Anal. Hist. Nat. Madr. 3: 27 (1801)
  • Alternanthera repens (L.) Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 154 (1821), nom. illeg. (later homonym of Alternanthera repens Gmel. 1791)
  • Alternanthera repens Steud., Nomencl. Bot. [Steudel] 34 (1821), nom. inval. in syn.
  • Alternanthera repens (L.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 536, 540 (1891), isonym, nom. illeg.
  • Alternanthera repens f. monocephala O.Bolòs & A.Marcos
  • Illecebrum achyrantha L., Sp. Pl., ed. 2. 1: 299 (1762), nom. illeg. superfl.
  • Illecebrum ramosum hort ex Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 359 (1849), nom. inval. in syn.
  • Pupalia sordida (Bunbury) Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 333 (1849).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Northern America Mexico Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest Southern America Caribbean Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico Northern South America Venezuela Western South America Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru Brazil Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central Southern South America Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Paraguay, Uruguay Introduced elsewhere. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Humboldt, A., Bonpland, A. & Kunth, C.S. 1817–1818 ["1817"]. Nova genera et species plantarum, quas in peregrinatione ad plagam aequinoctialem orbis novi collegerunt, descripserunt, partim adumbraverunt Amat. Bonpland et Alex. de Humboldt. Tomus 2 (quarto ed.). 406 pp., tt. 97–192. Sumtibus Librariae Graeco-Latino-Germanicae, Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris]. BHL Reference page. : 206
• Sprengel, C. 1824 ('1825'). Caroli Linnaei, ... Systema vegetabilium. Ed. 16. Vol. I: Classis 1–5. 992 pp. Sumtibus Librariae Dieterichianae, Gottingae [Göttingen]. BHL Reference page. : 820
• Moquin-Tandon, A. 1849. Amarantaceae. In: De Candolle, A.P. (ed.): Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 13(2): 231–424. Masson, Paris. BHL. Reference page. : 333, 359, 371

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Alternanthera pungens in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Oct. 18. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2019. Alternanthera pungens. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Oct. 18. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Alternanthera pungens. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 18 2019.
• Tropicos.org 2019. Alternanthera pungens. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 18 Oct. 2019.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Alternanthera pungens in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service.

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