Alternanthera flavescens

Taxonavigation

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

Alternanthera flavescens Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. [H.B.K.] 2: 207. (qu.) (1818)

Type: Venezuela: Crescit in umbrosis humidis juxta Cumana. Floret Septembri. Bonpland A.J.A. #100. Holotype: P P00136019; Isotypes: B B 10 0242320, F F0BN003212, F0047576F, P00136020.

Homotypic
- Illecebrum flavescens (Kunth) Spreng., Syst. Veg., ed. 16 [Sprengel] 1: 819. (1824)
- Mogiphanes flavescens (Kunth) Mart., Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. (Martius) 2(1): 36. (1826)
- Telanthera flavescens (Kunth) Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 382. (1849)
Heterotypic (ref. Govaerts 2019, Hassler 2019)
- Achyranthes capituliflora Bertero ex Colla, Hortus Ripul. [Colla] 4 ( t. 18) (1824).
- Achyranthes dioica Pav. ex Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 350 (1849), nom. inval. in syn. of Alternanthera flavescens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Moq.
- Alternanthera capituliflora (Bertero ex Colla) Schinz, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2 [Engler & Prantl] 16c: 76 (1934).
- Alternanthera floridana (Chapm.) Small, Fl. S.E. U.S. [Small]. 396, 1330 (1903).
- Telanthera capituliflora (Bertero ex Colla) Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 381 (1849).
- Telanthera floridana Chapm.,Fl. South. U.S. 383 (1860).

Alternanthera flavescens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 350 (1849), nom. illeg.

Native distribution areas:

Northern America
- Mexico
  - Mexico Southeast
Southern America
- Central America
  - Belize
- Caribbean
  - Leeward Is., Windward Is.
- Northern South America
  - Venezuela
- Western South America
  - Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
- Brazil
  - Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast
- Southern South America
  - Paraguay

Introduced into Dominican Republic, Florida, Trinidad-Tobago.

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. : 207
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. : 819
Martius, C.F.P. de 1826. Nova genera et species plantarum quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII–MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae regis augustissimi suscepto collegit et descripsit Dr. C. F. P. de Martius ..., vol. 2. Pp. 1–148, tt. 101–200. Typis C. Wolf, Monachii [Munich]. BHL Reference page. : 36
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. : 350, 381, 382

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Alternanthera flavescens in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Oct. 10. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2019. Alternanthera flavescens. 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. 10. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Alternanthera flavescens. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 10 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Alternanthera flavescens. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 10 Oct. 2019.

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