Alternanthera bettzickiana

Alternanthera bettzickiana
Alternanthera bettzickiana

Taxonavigation edit

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 bettzickiana

Name edit

Alternanthera bettzickiana (Regel) G.Nicholson, Ill. Dict. Gard. 1: 59. (1884), as "Bettzichiana"

Accepted by Govaerts 2019. Considered as a synoynm of Alternanthera ficoidea var. bettzickiana by Hassler 2019.

Synonyms edit

  • Basionym
    • Telanthera bettzickiana Regel, Gartenflora 11: 178. (1862)
  • Homotypic
    • Achyranthes bettzickiana (Regel) Standl., N. Amer. Fl. 21(2): 138. (1917)
    • Alternanthera bettzickiana (Regel) Standl., in Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Chicago, Bot. Ser. iii. 254. (1930), isonym
    • Alternanthera ficoidea var. bettzickiana (Regel) Backer, Fl. Males., Ser. 1, Spermat. 4: 93. (1949)
    • Alternanthera paronychioides var. bettzickiana (Regel) Fosberg, Willdenowia 20(1–2): 259. (1991)
    • Alternanthera tenella var. bettzickiana (Regel) Veldkamp, Taxon 27(2-3): 313. (1978)
  • Heterotypic (ref. Govaerts 2019, Hassler 2019)
    • Achyranthes amabilis Britton, Fl. Bermuda [N.L. Britton] 121. (1918)
    • Achyranthes cyclophylla (Seub.) Standl., J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 5: 74. (1915)
    • Achyranthes picta Pass., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 22: 31. (1864)
    • Alternanthera amabilis hort. ex Lem., Ill. Hort. 15: t. 558. (1868)
    • Alternanthera amabilis var. tricolor Linden & André, Ill. Hort. 17: 102, tab. 20. (1870)
    • Alternanthera articulata O.Stützer, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 88: 43. (1935)
    • Alternanthera articulata f. capitellata O.Stützer, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 88: 43. (1935)
    • Alternanthera articulata var. minuta O.Stützer, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 88: 43. (1935)
    • Alternanthera cyclophylla (Seub.) Schinz, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2 [Engler & Prantl] 16c: 74. (1934)
    • Alternanthera ficoidea var. amoena (Lem.) L.B.Sm. & Downs, Fl. Ilustr. Catarin. [Amara]: 62. (1972)
    • Alternanthera ficoidea var. spathulata (Lem.) L.B.Sm. & Downs, Fl. Ilustr. Catarin. [Amara]: 61. (1972)
    • Alternanthera kerberi Uline & W.L.Bray, Bot. Gaz. 20: 450. (1895)
    • Alternanthera purpurea hort. ex Pynaert, Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangère 5: 25 (1879)
    • Alternanthera sessilis var. amoena Lem., Ill. Hort. 12: t. 447. (1865)
    • Alternanthera spathulata Lem., Ill. Hort. 12: t. 445. (1865)
    • Amarantesia brasiliensis hort. ex Regel, Gartenflora 18: 102. (1869)
    • Jeilium tricolor hort. ex Regel, Gartenflora 18: 102. (1869)
    • Telanthera amoena (Lem.) Regel, Gartenflora 18: 101. (1869)
    • Telanthera cyclophylla Seub., Fl. Bras. (Martius) 5(1): 174. (1875)
    • Telanthera picta K.Koch, Wochenschr. Vereines Beförd. Gartenbaues Konigl. Preuss. Staaten 9: 15. (1866)
  • (+ ref Hassler 2019) (the "versicolor" taxa considered as synonym of Alternanthera pulchella by Govaerts 2019)
    • Alternanthera amoena (Lem.) Voss, Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 869. (1896)
    • Alternanthera amoena f. reinhardi Voss, Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 870. (1896)
    • Alternanthera brasiliensis hort. ex Voss, Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 869. (1895), nom. inval. in syn.
    • Alternanthera coerilis hort. ex Voss, Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 870. (1895), nom. inval. in syn.
    • Alternanthera ficoidea var. versicolor (Lem.) L.B.Sm. & Downs, Fl. Ilustr. Catarin. 1(Amarant.): 63. (1972)
    • Alternanthera paronychioides hort. ex Regel, Gartenflora 18: 102. (1869), (later homonym of Alternanthera paronychioides A.St.-Hil. 1833).
    • Alternanthera reinhardi hort. ex Voss, Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 870. (1895), nom. inval. in syn.
    • Alternanthera sessilis Lem., Ill. Hort. (1865) t. 447. (later homonym of Alternanthera sessilis (L.) DC. 1813).
    • Alternanthera tenella var. versicolor (Lem.) Veldkamp, Taxon 30(1): 208 (1981)
    • Alternanthera versicolor (Lem.) Regel, Gartenflora 18: 101. (1869)
    • Telanthera ficoidea var. versicolor Lem., Ill. Hort. 12: t. 440 (1865).
    • Telanthera versicolor (Lem.) Regel, Index Seminum [St.Petersburg (Petropolitanus)] (1868) 83.

Distribution edit

Native distribution areas:
  • Southern America
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North, Brazil South

Introduced and cultivated elsewhere.


References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References edit

Primary references edit

  • Nicholson, G. 1884. The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, a Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture for Gardeners and Botanists. Vol. I. A to E. London: L.U. Gill. BHL Reference page. : 59.
  • Regel, E. 1862. Der Garten Seiner Kaiserlichen Hoheit des Großfürsten Nicolai - Nicolajewitsch zu Snaminsk. Hofgärtner Herr Bettzick. Gartenflora 11: 173–180. BHL Reference page. : 178

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