Beta macrocarpa

Taxonavigation

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

Beta macrocarpa Guss., Index Seminum [Palermo] 1826: [2] (1826).

Type locality: Sicily. "In argillosis maritimis, et ad vias. Girgenti."
Type: G. Gussone #s.n. Holotype: NAP; isotype: BR BR0000006991784.
Neotype (designated by Iamonico 2019: 155): ITALY: Sicily, 15 June 1856, Gussone s.n. (PAL).

Homotypic
- Beta vulgaris var. macrocarpa (Guss.) Moq., Chenop. Monogr. Enum.: 14. (1840)
- Beta vulgaris subsp. macrocarpa (Guss.) Thell., Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 38: 190 (1912)
Heterotypic
- Beta bourgaei Coss., Notes Pl. Crit. 44. (1849)
  - Type locality: Spain: "In arenosis maritimis subhumidis agri Gaditani, prope Puerto Santa Maria loco dicto Coto cum Mesembryanthemo nodifloro crescens."
  - Lectotype (designated by Iamonico 2019: 155): SPAIN: Sables maritimes au Coto près Santa Maria, 8 June 1849, E. Bourgeau #425 (G G00177360, Isolectotypes: G00177359, K K000898513).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Europe
- Regional: Northern Europe
  - Sweden (casual)
- Regional: Southwestern Europe
  - Baleares (Ibiza-Formentera, Mallorca, Menorca), France (naturalized), Portugal, Sardegna (doubtfully present), Spain.
- Regional: Southeastern Europe
  - Greece, Italy, Kriti, Sicilia (Sicily).
Continental: Africa
- Regional: Northern Africa
  - Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia.
- Regional: Macaronesia
  - Canary Islands (Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, La Palma, Tenerife; doubtfully native).
Continental: Asia-Temperate
- Regional: Western Asia
  - Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Palestine (Jordan), Turkey.

Gussone, G. 1827. Florae Siculae Prodromus (sive, Plantarum in Sicilia ulteriori nascentium enumeratio secundum systema Linnaeanum disposita). Vol. 1. 592 + 11 pp., Neapoli, ex regia typographia. Hathitrust Google. Reference page.
Moquin-Tandon, A. 1840. Chenopodearum Monographica Enumeratio. P.-J. Loss, Paris. BHL Reference page.
Thellung, A. 1912. La flore adventice de Montpellier. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg 38: 57–728. BHL Reference page.
Cosson, E. 1849–1852. Notes sur quelques plantes critiques, rares ou nouvelles (6 parts). Paris, Victor Masson. Biblioteca Digital. Reference page.

Iamonico, D. 2019. Remarks on the subfam. Betoideae (Chenopodiaceae/Amaranthaceae sensu APGIV). Phytotaxa 400(3): 145–164. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.400.3.3 Reference page.
Kadereit, G., Hohmann, S. & Kadereit, J.W. 2006. A synopsis of Chenopodiaceae subfam. Betoideae and notes on the taxonomy of Beta. Willdenowia 36(1): 9–19. DOI: 10.3372/wi.36.36101 . Reference page.
Uotila, P. 2011. Beta macrocarpa in: Chenopodiaceae (pro parte majore). Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.
Tan, K. 1997. Beta. Pp. 110–112 in Strid, A. & Tan, K. (eds.), Flora Hellenica. Volume One (Gymnospermae to Caryophyllaceae). Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, 547 pp. ISBN 3-87429-391-2. Reference page.

Flore du Maroc 2017. Beta macrocarpa. Accessed 2017-02-14.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Beta macrocarpa in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Apr 28. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2019. Beta macrocarpa. 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 Nov. 27. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Beta macrocarpa. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 27 2019.

Tropicos.org 2019. Beta macrocarpa. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 Nov. 2019.

català: Bleda macrocarpa
español: Acelga de fruto grande
français: Betterave à gros fruits