Amaranthus graecizans

Amaranthus graecizans

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: Amaranthoideae
Genus: Amaranthus
Species: Amaranthus graecizans
Varietates: A. g. var. graecizans – A. g. var. pachytepalus

Name edit

Amaranthus graecizans L., Sp. Pl. 2: 990. (1753)

  • Lectotype (designated by Fernald 1945, Rhodora 47: pl. 887.): USA: Virginia. John Clayton #442. BM BM000051563.

Synonyms edit

  • Homotypic
    • Blitum graecizans (L.) Moench, Methodus 359. (1794)
    • Glomeraria graecizans (L.) Cav., Elench. Pl. Hort. Matr. 16. (1803)
    • Amaranthus blitum var. graecizans (L.) Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 263. (1849)
    • Pyxidium graecizans (L.) Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 263. (1849), nom. inval. in syn.
    • Amaranthus angustifolius subsp. graecizans (L.) Probst, Wolladventivfl. Mitteleur.: 74. (1949)
    • Galliaria graecizans (L.) Nieuwl., Amer. Midl. Naturalist 3(9): 278. (1914)
  • Heterotypic (ref. Hassler 2019)
    • Amaranthus angustifolius Lam., Encycl. 1: 115. (1783)
    • Amaranthus angustifolius subsp. aschersonianus Thell., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. [Ascherson & Graebner]. 5: 309 (1914).
    • Amaranthus angustifolius subsp. polygonoides (Moq.) Maire & Weiller, Maire, Fl. Afrique N. 8: 208. (1962)
    • Amaranthus angustifolius var. silvestris (Vill.) Thell.
    • Amaranthus angustifolius subsp. silvestris (Vill.) Wachter, in Henkels, Geill. Schoolfl. Nederl. ed. 11: 170. (1934)
    • Amaranthus aschersonianus (Thell.) Chiov., Nuovo Giom Bot. Ital. ser. 2, 25. 103. (1919)
    • Amaranthus blitum var. silvestris (Vill.) Moq., DC., Prodr. (Ed. A. DC.) 13 (2): 263. (1849)
    • Amaranthus graecizans subsp. aschersonianus (Thell.) Costea, D.M.Brenner & Tardif, Econ. Bot. 57: 646. (2003)
    • Amaranthus graecizans subsp. silvestris (Vill.) Brenan, Watsonia 4: 273. (1961)
    • Amaranthus graecizans subsp. sylvestris (Vill.) O.Bolòs & Vigo, But. Inst. Catalana Hist. Nat., 38 Bot., 1: 89. (1974), orth. var.
    • Amaranthus graecizans subsp. thellungianus (Nevski) Gusev, Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 57(5): 462. (1972)
    • Amaranthus paolii Chiov., Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. ser. 2, 34: 845 (1927).
    • Amaranthus roxburghianus var. aschersonianus (Thell.) N.C.Nair, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 73(1): 61. (1976)
    • Amaranthus silvestris Vill., Cat. Jard. Pl. Strasbourg 111. (1807)
    • Amaranthus thellungianus Nevski, Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 4: 311. (1937)
    • Amaranthus thunbergii var. grandifolius Suess.
    • Galliaria sylvestris (Vill.) Bubani, Fl. Pyren. (Bubani) 1: 186. (1897)
    • Pyxidium sylvestre (Vill.) Friche-Joset & Montandon, Syn. Fl. Jura 260. (1856)

Distribution edit

Native distribution areas:
  • Europe
    • Southwestern Europe
      • Baleares, France, Portugal, Spain
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia
  • Africa
    • Northern Africa
      • Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco
    • Macaronesia
      • Azores, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Madeira
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Benin, Burkina, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo
    • West-Central Tropical Africa
      • Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gulf of Guinea Is., Rwanda, Zaïre
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya, Tanzania
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola, Zimbabwe
  • Asia-Temperate
    • Western Asia
      • Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Sinai, Turkey
    • Arabian Peninsula
      • Gulf States, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Introduced into: Austria, Belgium, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Djibouti, Germany, Hungary, Krym, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Northwest European Russia, Romania, Sardegna, South Australia, Switzerland, Tasmania, Turkmenistan, Victoria, Western Sahara.


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

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Vernacular names edit

Deutsch: Griechischer Fuchsschwanz
English: Mediterranean amaranth
suomi: Kreikanrevonhäntä
hornjoserbsce: Grjekski šćěrjenc
svenska: Grekamarant
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