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Alternanthera tenella

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Filed as Alternanthera tenella Colla var. bettzickiana (Regel) Veldkamp [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Type of Alternanthera bettzeckiana Nichols var. spathulata (Lam.) Regel [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Filed as Alternanthera tenella Colla [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Filed as Alternanthera tenella Colla [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Holotype of Telanthera cyclophylla Seub. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Type? of Telanthera tenella Moq. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Type of Alternanthera tenella Colla [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Type of Paronychia tenella Desf. [family ILLECEBRACEAE]
Alternanthera aquilibacum unrecorded [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Filed as Alternanthera polygonoides (L.) R. Br. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Filed as Alternanthera tenella Colla [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Filed as Alternanthera tenella Colla [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Original material of Bucholzia polygonoides var. radicans Mart. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Filed as Alternanthera tenella Colla [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Filed as Gomphrena ficoidea Jacq. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Alternanthera bettzeckiana Nichols [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Alternanthera tenella Colla [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Alternanthera polygonoides
  • Illecebrum ficoideum
  • Alternanthera austrotrinitatis
  • Alternanthera bettzeckiana
  • Alternanthera aquilibacum
  • Alternanthera tenella
Common name
  • parrotleaf, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • Calicoplant, Flora of North America Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Alternanthera ficoidea (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois var. bettzickiana (Regel) Backer [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 4,
Names
Alternanthera ficoidea (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois var. bettzickiana (Regel) Backer [family AMARANTHACEAE], in C. G. G. J. van Steenis, Fl. Males. Ser., 1, 4: 93. 1949
Telanthera bettzickiana Regel [family AMARANTHACEAE], Gartenflora, 11: 178. 1862
Alternanthera tenella Colla var. bettzickiana (Regel) Veldkamp [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Treatment Author(s)
Steven E. Clemants
Information
Herbs, annual or perennial, often suffrutescent at base, 0.7–1 dm. Stems erect, ascending, prostrate, or decumbent, villous or gray-pubescent, glabrate. Leaves sessile; blade rhombic-ovate to rhombic-obovate, 1–6 × 0.7–2.2 cm, herbaceous, apex acuminate to acute. Inflorescences axillary, sessile; heads stramineous to white, globose, ovoid, or short cylindric, 0.5–1.2 × 0.5–6 cm; bracts less than 1/2 as long as tepals. Flowers: tepals monomorphic, whitish to stramineous, lanceolate, oblong, or ovate-oblong, 2.2–2.5 mm, margins chartaceous, apex acute to acuminate, mucronate, pilose or hispid; stamens 5; anthers 5, oblong; pseudo-staminodes lanceolate, equaling or exceeding filaments, margins fimbriate. Utricles included within tepals, stramineous, ovoid to subglobose, 1.8–2 mm, apex acuminate. Seeds 1 mm.
Phenology
late winter
Altitude range
0–10 m;
Distribution
South America (Brazil)widely cultivated throughout the tropics.USA Fla.USA Tex.
Discussion
Because of its varicolored foliage, var. bettzichiana is widely cultivated. Unconfirmed reports of its spread from cultivation include California and Maryland. Variety flavogrisea (hairy joyweed), similar to var. bettzichiana but green throughout and with oblong, ovate, elliptic, or oval leaves, has been reported from Texas, but no specimens have been seen.
Native/Introduced
introduced;

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