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Illecebrum ficoideum

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Filed as Illecebrum ficoideum (L.) L. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Filed as Alternanthera paronychioides A.St.-Hil. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Type? of Telanthera serpyllifolia Moq. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Filed as Illecebrum ficoideum [family ILLECEBRACEAE]
Filed as Telanthera ficoidea (L.) Moq. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Filed as Alternanthera polygonoides (L.) R. Br. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Type of Illecebrum ficoideum (L.) L. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Filed as Illecebrum ficoideum [family ILLECEBRACEAE]
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Identification
Illecebrum ficoideum (L.) L. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Gomphrena ficoidea L. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Linnaeus, Carl, Alternanthera ficoidea (L.) P.Beauv. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Alternanthera polygonoides
  • Alternanthera ficoidea
  • Jameshondia serpyllifolia
  • Alternanthera serpyllifolia
  • Alternanthera ficoides
  • Illecebrum ficoideum
  • Telanthera serpyllifolia
  • Gomphrena ficoidea
  • Telanthera ficoidea
  • Alternanthera not on sheet
  • Alternanthera tenella
Common name
  • Smooth joyweed, Flora of North America Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Alternanthera paronychioides A. St.-Hilaire [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 paronychioides A. St.-Hilaire [family AMARANTHACEAE], Voy. Distr. Diam., 2: 439. 1833
Illecebrum ficoideum Jacquin [family ILLECEBRACEAE], Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist., 88. 1763,. not Linnaeus 1762
Past names
paronichyoides
Treatment Author(s)
Steven E. Clemants
Information
Herbs, perennial, 1–8 dm. Stems prostrate, villous, glabrate. Leaves sessile; blade elliptic, ovate-rhombic, or oval, 0.6–2.5 × 0.3–1.1 cm, apex acute or obtuse, villous, soon glabrate. Inflores-cences axillary, sessile; heads white, globose, 0.5–1 cm diam.; bracts less than 1/2 as long as tepals. Flowers: tepals monomorphic, white, lanceolate, 3–5 mm, apex acuminate, without rigid, spinose tips, hairs not barbed; stamens 5; anthers 3–5, globose; pseudostaminodes ligulate, shorter than filaments, margins entire or dentate. Utricles included within tepals, stramineous, orbiculate to rounded-obovate, 2–2.3 mm, apex truncate. Seeds lenticular, 1.2–1.5 mm.
Phenology
mar-may (spring), jun-aug (summer), sep-nov (fall)
Altitude range
0–10 m;
Distribution
MexicoWest IndiesCentral AmericaSouth AmericaAsiaAfricaPacific Islands.USA introducedUSA Ala.USA Del.USA Fla.USA Ga.USA La.USA Miss.USA N.J.USA N.C.USA Pa.USA S.C.USA Tenn.USA Tex.
Discussion
Plants identified as Alternanthera paronychioides var. amazonica Huber have been collected on salt flats in central Louisiana. The specimens I have seen are not sufficiently distinct to warrant varietal recognition.

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