Amaranthus hybridus L.

Hassan, Walaa A., Al-Shaye, Najla A. & Iamonico, Duilio, 2023, A critical inventory of the family Amaranthaceae s. str. in Saudi Arabia, Phytotaxa 626 (4), pp. 223-246 : 234

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.626.4.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10249243
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scientific name	Amaranthus hybridus L.
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4.8. Amaranthus hybridus L. View in CoL , Sp. Pl. 2: 990. 1753.

Lectotype (designated by Townsend 1974: 19):— U.S.A. Habitat in Virginia, Herb. Linn. No. 1117.19 ( LINN!, image of the lecyotype is available at http://linnean-online.org/11645/).

= Amaranthus chlorostachys Willd., Hist. Amaranth. View in CoL : 34. 1790.

Lectotype (designated by Iamonico 2016a: 521):— UNSPECIFIED LOCALITY, Hermes s.n. (B-W17521!, image of the lecyotype is available at https://herbarium.bgbm.org/object/BW17521000).

= Amaranthus patulus Bertol., Comment. Itin. Neapol. 19. 1837.

Lectotype (designated by Iamonico 2016a: 525):— ITALY. Campania: Napoli al Pasconcello, Sep 1834, Bertoloni s.n. (BOLO!, image of the lectotype in Iamonico 2016a: Figure 3).

= Amaranthus hybridus L. subsp. hybridus var. erythrostachys Moq., Prodr. [A.P. de Candolle] 13(2): 259. 1849.

Lectotype (designated by Iamonico 2016a: 522):— FRANCE. “ Hort. Tol. ”, 1844, s. c. s.n. (G147762/1!, image of the lectotype available at http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/chg/adetail.php?id=138993&base=img&lang=en).

Alien status:― Neophyte, native to tropical areas of North and Central America; it can be considered as naturalized in Saudi Arabia ( Chaudhary 1998, Hassan et al. 2022).

Occurrence in Saudi Arabia :― Al-Baha, Makkah ( Miller & Cope 1996, Al-Eisawi & Al-Ruzayza 2015), Tabuk ( Miller & Cope 1996, Aljieddani et al. 2021), Bisha ( Abbas et al. 2020), and Taif ( Abdullah et al. 2017). No specimen was traced.