Amaranthus gangeticus (Amaranthaceae), a name incertae sedis

Duilio Iamonico

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.162.5.2

Issue: Vol. 162 No. 5: 19 March 2014

Type: Correspondence

Published: 2014-03-19

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.162.5.2

Page range: 299–300

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***Amaranthus gangeticus* (Amaranthaceae), a name *incertae sedis***

Duilio Iamonico⁺⁻

Laboratory of Phytogeography and Applied Geobotany, Section Environment and Landscape, Department PDTA, University of Rome Sapienza, 00196 Roma, Italy

Amaranthaceae Amaranthus gangeticus incertae sedis

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Abstract

As part of the revision of the genus Amaranthus Linnaeus (1753: 989) for the treatment of Amaranthaceae Jussieu for the Euro+Med PlantBase project (Iamonico, in prep.), and the typification work on the Linnaean names in this family (e.g., Iamonico 2012, 2013, 2014a, 2014b, Iamonico & Jarvis 2012, Iamonico & Del Pino 2014), it has been necessary to establish the identity of A. gangeticus Linnaeus (1759: 1268), especially in comparison with the related taxa included in the A. tricolor Linnaeus (1753: 989) aggregate (Iamonico 2014a).