Achyranthes bidentata

Taxonavigation

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

Achyranthes bidentata Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 11: 545. (1826)

Type: Mauritius. Blume? #s.n. NY00324422.
Isosyntype: In ins. Java inter montem Burangrang et Tankuwan-Prahu. Blume C.L. von #s.n. P00610532.

Homotypic
- Centrostachys bidentata (Blume) Standl., J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 5: 75. (1915), in obs.
Heterotypic (ref. Hassler 2019)
- Achyranthes aspera Wall., Numer. List [Wallich] n. 6924 H. (1832) (later homonym of Achyranthes aspera L. 1753)
- Achyranthes chinensis Osbeck, Dagb. Ostind. Resa 205 (1757)
- Achyranthes fruticosa Lam., Encycl. [J. Lamarck & al.] 1(2): 545. (1785)
- Achyranthes hispida Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 312. (1849), nom. inval. in syn.
- Achyranthes javanica Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 312. 1849, nom. illeg. (later homonym of Achyranthes javanica Pers. 1805)
- Achyranthes lanceolata Zoll. & Moritzi ex Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 312. (1849), nom. inval. in syn. ( and later homonym of Achyranthes lanceolata J.G.Klein 1832)
- Achyranthes mauritiana Moq., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 313. (1849)
- Achyranthes mollicula Nakai, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 34: 40. (1920)
- Achyranthes ryukyuensis Tawada, J. Geobot. 19(1-2): 33. (1971)
- Achyranthes wightiana Wall., Numer. List [Wallich] n. 6928. (1832)
- Centrostachys moquinii Standl., J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 5: 76. (1915), in obs.

Native distribution areas:

Asia-Temperate
- China
  - China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Tibet
- Eastern Asia
  - Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto, Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
- Indian Subcontinent
  - Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya
- Indo-China
  - Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Thailand, Vietnam
- Malesia
  - Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera
- Papuasia
  - New Guinea, Solomon Is.

Introduced elsewhere.

Blume, C.L. 1826 ["1825"]. Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië. 11de Stuk. Pp. 529–577. Ter Lands Drukkerij, Batavia. BHL Reference page. : 545
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. : 312–313

'eFloras 2008. Achyranthes bidentata in Flora of China. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Achyranthes bidentata in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Sept. 12. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2019. Achyranthes bidentata. 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 Sept. 12. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Achyranthes bidentata. Published online. Accessed: Sept. 12 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Achyranthes bidentata. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 12 Sept. 2019.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Achyranthes bidentata in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service.

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