- Family:
- Amaranthaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Alternanthera Forssk.
Alternanthera bettzickiana (Regel) G.Nicholson

[UPFC]
- Distribution
- Biogeografic region: Andean, Caribbean, Orinoquia, Pacific. Elevation range: 0–2600 m a.s.l. Cultivated in Colombia. Colombian departments: Bogotá DC, Bolívar, Chocó, Cundinamarca, Magdalena, Norte de Santander, Quindío, Santander, Valle del Cauca, Vaupés.
- Habit
- Herb.
- Ecology
- Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: forest and woodland, savanna, shrubland, wetlands (inland), artificial - terrestrial.
[CPLC]
Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
- Distribution
- Cultivada en Colombia; Alt. 0 - 2600 m.; Andes, Llanura del Caribe, Orinoquia, Pacífico, Valle del Cauca.
- Morphology General Habit
- Hierba
[UNAL]
Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/
- Vernacular
- manito de Dios, té, té verde
Native to:
Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil South, Ecuador, Peru
Introduced into:
Andaman Is., Ascension, Assam, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Borneo, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Comoros, Cook Is., Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Fiji, Florida, Gilbert Is., Guinea, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Jawa, Leeward Is., Malawi, Malaya, Marianas, Mauritius, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Society Is., Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Tokelau-Manihiki, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Uganda, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Windward Is., Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Achyranthes amabilis Britton
- Achyranthes bettzickiana (Regel) Standl.
- Achyranthes cyclophylla (Seub.) Standl.
- Achyranthes picta Pass.
- Alternanthera amabilis Lem.
- Alternanthera amabilis var. tricolor Linden & André
- Alternanthera amoena f. amabilis (Lem.) Voss
- Alternanthera articulata O.Stützer
- Alternanthera articulata f. capitellata O.Stützer
- Alternanthera articulata f. capitulifera O.Stützer
- Alternanthera articulata var. minuta O.Stützer
- Alternanthera cyclophylla (Seub.) Schinz
- Alternanthera ficoidea var. amoena (Lem.) L.B.Sm. & Downs
- Alternanthera ficoidea var. bettzickiana (Regel) Backer
- Alternanthera ficoidea var. spathulata (Lem.) L.B.Sm. & Downs
- Alternanthera kerberi Uline & W.L.Bray
- Alternanthera paronychioides var. bettzickiana (Regel) Fosberg
- Alternanthera purpurea Pynaert
- Alternanthera sessilis var. amoena Lem.
- Alternanthera spathulata Lem.
- Alternanthera tenella var. bettzickiana (Regel) Veldkamp
- Amarantesia brasiliensis Regel
- Jeilium tricolor Regel
- Telanthera amoena (Lem.) Regel
- Telanthera bettzickiana Regel
- Telanthera cyclophylla Seub.
- Telanthera picta K.Koch
Alternanthera bettzickiana (Regel) G.Nicholson appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 1, 1976 | Burchell [9869], Brazil | K000582985 | isotype | Yes | |
s.coll. [2978], Brazil | K001207276 | Yes | |||
Broadway, W.E. [s.n.], Trinidad & Tobago | K000582972 | holotype | Yes | ||
Spruce, R. [2978], Brazil | K001207277 | Yes | |||
Broadway, W.E. [2968], Trinidad & Tobago | K000582971 | Yes | |||
Prance, G.T. [15574], Brazil | K001207278 | Yes |
First published in Ill. Dict. Gard. 1: 59 (1884)
Accepted by
- Barthelat, F. (2019). La flore illustrée de Mayotte: 1-687. Biotope éditions.
- Chou, S., Chhnang, P. & Kim, Y. (2016). A Checklist for the Seed Plants of Cambodia: 1-272. National Institute of Biological Resources, Korea.
- Dassanayake (ed.) (1980). A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon 1: 1-508. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. PVT. LTD., New Delhi, Calcutta.
- George, A.S., Orchard, A.E. & Hewson, H.J. (eds.) (1993). Oceanic islands 2. Flora of Australia 50: 1-606. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
- Ghazanfar, S.A. & Edmandson, J.R. (eds.) (2016). Flora of Iraq 5(1): 1-284. Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform, Baghdad.
- Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.
- Grierson, A.J.C. & Long, D.G. (1984). Flora of Bhutan 1(2): 189-462. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
- Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
- Lisowski, S. (2009). Flore (Angiospermes) de la République de Guinée. Scripta Botanica Belgica 41: 1-517.
- Lê, T.C. (2003). Danh lục các loài thực vật Việt Nam 2: 1-1203. Hà Nội : Nhà xuất bản Nông nghiệp.
- MacKee, H.S. (1994). Catalogue des plantes introduites et cultivées en Nouvelle-Calédonie, ed. 2: 1-164. Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris.
- Mostaph, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
- Nasir, E. & Ali, S.I. (eds.) (1970-1995). Flora of West Pakistan 1-131.
- Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
- Patzelt, A. & al. (2020). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXIV. Sixty new records from the Sultanate of Oman. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 77: 413-437.
- T. Smitinand & K. Larsen, eds. (1987). Flora of Thailand 5: 1-470. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.
- Turner, I.M. (1995). A catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 47(1): 1-346.
- Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
Not accepted by
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192. [Cited as Alternanthera tenella var. bettzickiana.]
- Bosser, J. & al. (eds.) (1994). Flore des Mascareignes 136-148: 1. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris. [Cited as Alternanthera tenella var. bettzickiana.]
- Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2003). Flora of North America North of Mexico 4: 1-559. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford. [Cited as Alternanthera ficoidea var. bettzickiana.]
- Florence, J. (2004). Flore de la Polynésie Française 2: 1-503. IRD editions, Paris. [Cited as Alternanthera tenella 'Bettzickiana'.]
- Launert, E. (ed.) (1988). Flora Zambesiaca 9(1): 1-179. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Alternanthera tenella.]
- Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania 30: 1-307. [Cited as Alternanthera tenella var. bettzickiana.]
- Sykes, W.R. (2016). Flora of the Cook Islands: 1-973. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii. [Cited as Alternanthera ficoidea.]
- Townsend, C.C. (1985). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Amaranthaceae: 1-136. [Cited as Alternanthera tenella var. bettzickiana.]
- Wagner, W.L., Herbst, D.R. & Sohmer, S.H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, rev. ed., 1: 1-988. University of Hawai'i Press, Bishop Museum Press. [Cited as Alternanthera tenella.]
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Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
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- Chou, S., Chhnang, P. & Kim, Y. (2016). A Checklist for the Seed Plants of Cambodia: 1-272. National Institute of Biological Resources, Korea.
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- Lisowski, S. (2009). Flore (Angiospermes) de la République de Guinée. Scripta Botanica Belgica 41: 1-517.
- Lê, T.C. (2003). Danh lục các loài thực vật Việt Nam 2: 1-1203. Hà Nội : Nhà xuất bản Nông nghiệp.
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- Mostaph, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
- Nasir, E. & Ali, S.I. (eds.) (1970-1995). Flora of West Pakistan 1-131.
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- Turner, I.M. (1995). A catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 47(1): 1-346.
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