Common names:

• spleen amaranth  (Source: Food Feed Crops US) - English
• brède de Malabar  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• carurú  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• bledo  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• bledos malezas  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• pira  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

• Human food: vegetable (used like spinach)
• Medicines: folklore

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Nuevo León, Sonora]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Morelos, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: West Indies
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Central America
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru


Cultivated

Africa

• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Sri Lanka
• PAPUASIA: New Guinea
• MALESIA: Indonesia [Lesser Sunda Islands]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: West Indies


Naturalized

Africa

• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, [Maharashtra] Sri Lanka
• MALESIA: Indonesia [Jawa]

Europe

• Europe

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida]

Pacific

• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji

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