Amaranthaceae

Amaranthus L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 989 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Cosmopolitan.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Assam, Azores, Bahamas, Baleares, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Bulgaria, Burkina, California, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Chad, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Delaware, District of Columbia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, France, Free State, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Jawa, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Line Is., Louisiana, Madeira, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oman, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rhode I., Rwanda, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, Southwest Caribbean, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Turks-Caicos Is., Uganda, Uruguay, Utah, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alaska, Aldabra, Altay, Amur, Andaman Is., Ascension, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, British Columbia, Burundi, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Central European Rus, Chagos Archipelago, Chita, Christmas I., Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Fiji, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Gilbert Is., Great Britain, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, Hungary, Ireland, Irkutsk, Ivory Coast, Japan, Juan Fernández Is., Kazan-retto, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Labrador, Laccadive Is., Liberia, Maldives, Manchuria, Manitoba, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mongolia, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Netherlands, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Nicobar Is., Niue, Norfolk Is., North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ogasawara-shoto, Phoenix Is., Pitcairn Is., Poland, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Qinghai, Québec, Rodrigues, Romania, Réunion, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., South China Sea, South European Russi, St.Helena, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tasmania, Tibet, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Tristan da Cunha, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tuva, Ukraine, Vanuatu, Wake I., West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Sahara, Yakutskiya

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.
  • Zhao, Y.Z., Zhao, L.Q. & Cao, R. (eds.) in Zhao, Y.Z., Zhao, L.Q. & Rui, C. (eds.) (2019). Flora Intramongolica, edition 3, 1: 1-779. Typis Intramongolicae popularis, Huhhot.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Thellung in Asch. & Grabner Synopsis 5, 1: 225–356 (1914).
  • —F.T.A. 6, 1: 30

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Brenan, “The genus Amaranthus in Southern Africa”, Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 47: 451–492 (1981).
  • Sp. Pl. 2: 989 (1753)

Flora of Somalia

  • Aellen in Hegi, Ill. Fl. Mitteleur. 3,2: 465–516 (1959)
  • Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. C. Townsend [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
  • Townsend in Publ. Cairo Univ. Herb. 7 & 8: 63–66 (1977).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 427 (1754)
  • Sp. Pl.: 989 (1753)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 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 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0