Amaranthaceae

Bassia All.

First published in Auct. Syn. Meth. Stirp. Hort. Regii Taur. 3: 177 (1766)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Temp. & Subtropical Northern Hemisphere, S. Africa.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Central European Russia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Germany, Greece, Gulf States, Hainan, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mali, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Primorye, Qinghai, Romania, Sakhalin, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sinai, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Türkiye, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, Yemen

Introduced into:

Alabama, Alberta, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Baltic States, Belgium, British Columbia, California, Chile Central, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Denmark, East Aegean Is., Finland, Great Britain, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ireland, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Kriti, Louisiana, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Myanmar, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand South, North Carolina, North Dakota, Norway, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Québec, Rhode I., Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Sicilia, South Carolina, South Dakota, Sudan-South Sudan, Sweden, Tennessee, Texas, Türkiye-in-Europe, Utah, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yakutiya

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
  • Kadereit, G. & Freitag, H. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of Camphorosmeae (Camphorosmoideae, Chenopodiaceae): Implications for biogeography, evolution of C4-photosynthesis and taxonomy. Taxon 60: 51-78.

Flora of Iraq

  • All. Mel. Phil. Math. Soc. Turin 3: 177 (1766)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Flora of Iraq

    • Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. (Eds). (2013-2019). Flora of Iraq, Volumes 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0. Kew Publishing
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0