Taxon: Amaranthus dubius Mart. ex Thell.

 
Genus: Amaranthus
  Subgenus: Amaranthus
Family: Amaranthaceae
Nomen number: 101534
Place of publication: Fl. adv. Montpellier 203. 1912 Jan (Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Math. Cherbourg 38(sér. 4, vol. 8):679. 1912; P. F. A. Ascherson & K. O. R. P. P. Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 5(1):265. 1914)
Name Verified on: 26-May-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 13-Mar-2017
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7)
Accessions: 44 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Human food: vegetable (used like spinach fide Food Feed Crops US)
  • Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

    Native:

  • Northern America

    • Northern Mexico: Mexico - Nuevo Leon, - Sonora
    • Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, - Chiapas, - Colima, - Guerrero, - Jalisco, - Morelos, - Quintana Roo, - Tabasco, - Veracruz, - Yucatan

  • Southern America

    • Brazil: Brazil
    • Caribbean: West Indies
    • Central America: Central America
    • Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
    • Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

    • Naturalized:

  • Africa

    • East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
    • South Tropical Africa: Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe

  • Asia-Tropical

    • Indian Subcontinent: India - Maharashtra; Sri Lanka
    • Malesia: Indonesia - Java

  • Europe

    • : Europe

  • Northern America

    • Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida

  • Pacific

    • Southwestern Pacific: Fiji

    • Cultivated:

  • Africa

    • East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Uganda
    • West Tropical Africa: Benin; Ghana; Nigeria; Sierra Leone
    • West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Zaire

  • Asia-Tropical

    • Indian Subcontinent: Sri Lanka
    • Malesia: Indonesia - Lesser Sunda Islands
    • Papuasia: New Guinea

  • Southern America

    • Caribbean: West Indies

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