Amaranthus macrocarpus

Taxonavigation

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

Amaranthus macrocarpus Benth., Fl. Austral. 5: 216. (1870)

Lectotype (designated by Palmer 2009: 120.): Australia: New South Wales, junction of the Murray & Darling. 1853-12, F. Mueller #s.n. Lectotype: MEL MEL59717; Isolectotypes: MEL59716, K K000357413 (left-hand side specimens only), NSW NSW16811.

Homotypic
- Euxolus macrocarpus (Benth.) F.Muell., Syst. Census Austral. Pl. 1: 29. (1882)
Heterotypic (ref. Hassler 2019)
- Amaranthus macrocarpus var. melanocarpus Thell., Synops. Mitteleurop. Fl. 5(1): 311. (1914)

Native distribution areas:
Australasia Australia New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Bentham, G. & Mueller, F.J.H. v. 1870. Flora Australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. Volume 5. Myoporineae to Proteaceae. 599 pp., London, L. Reeve & co. BHL Reference page. : 216

Palmer, J. 2009. A conspectus of the genus Amaranthus (Amaranthaceae) in Australia. Nuytsia 19: 107–128. PDF Reference page.

Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) 2019. Amaranthus macrocarpus Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian National Botanic Gardens & Australian National Herbarium. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 19.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Amaranthus macrocarpus in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 19. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2019. Amaranthus macrocarpus. 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 Aug. 19. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Amaranthus macrocarpus. Published online. Accessed: Aug. 19 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Amaranthus macrocarpus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 19 Aug. 2019.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Amaranthus macrocarpus in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.