Alternanthera Forssk.

Native to:

Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Aruba, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cabinda, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Chile Central, Chile North, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norfolk Is., Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., South Australia, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tasmania, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Victoria, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zaïre

Introduced into:

Alabama, Aldabra, Algeria, Arizona, Arkansas, Ascension, Azores, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, California, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, Christmas I., Comoros, Cook Is., Delaware, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Free State, Georgia, Gilbert Is., Gulf States, Hainan, Hawaii, Illinois, Italy, Kentucky, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Louisiana, Madeira, Malawi, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Mauritius, Mississippi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nicobar Is., Niger, North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Oklahoma, Oman, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Pitcairn Is., Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Seychelles, Sicilia, Society Is., Somalia, South Carolina, South China Sea, Spain, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tunisia, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Virginia, Wallis-Futuna Is., Zambia, Zimbabwe

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• —F.T.A. 6, 1: 72.

Flora Zambesiaca

• Fl. Aegypt-Arab.: 28 (1775).

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. C. Townsend [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 28 (1775)