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Taxon:  Chenopodium giganteum D. Don



Summary
Genus:
Chenopodium
Family:
Chenopodiaceae
Subfamily:
Chenopodioideae
Tribe:
Chenopodieae
Nomen number:
311134
Place of publication:
Prodr. fl. nepal. 75. 1825
Comment:
  • controversial name
  • may = C. album subsp. amaranticolor
Verified:
03/11/2004 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
2 (2  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Chenopodium album L. subsp. amaranticolor Coste & A. Reyn.
Chenopodium amaranticolor (Coste & A. Reyn.) Coste & Reyn.
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Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Cabrera, A. L., ed. Flora de la provincia de Buenos Aires. 1965-1970 Note: = C. album L.
  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  4. Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist. 1981
  5. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002
  6. Eriksson, O. et al. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2. 1979
  7. Facciola, S. Cornucopia II: a source book of edible plants. 1998 Note: Kampong Publications
  8. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- Note: mentions under C. album L. aggr.
  9. George, A. S., ed. 1984. Flora of Australia. 1980- 4:134.
  10. Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 10:81. Note: mentions
  11. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982 Note: = C. album subsp. amaranticolor Coste & A. Reyn.
  12. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  13. Kartesz, J. T. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 1994 Note: = C. album var. album
  14. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964
  15. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  16. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea, second edition. 1993
  17. Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource). Note: http://www.conabio.gob.mx/malezasdemexico/chenopodiaceae/chenopodium-giganteum/fichas/pagina1.htm
  18. Wahl, H. A. 1954. A preliminary study of the genus Chenopodium in North America. Bartonia 27:40.
  19. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
magentaspreen –
tree-spinach –
German
Spinatbaum –
Swedish
praktmålla –
Transcribed Chinese
zhang li –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    widely cult.
6Other    native range obscure, perhaps in Asia
Cultivated (widely cult.)
Other (native range obscure, perhaps in Asia)
Economic Uses
Harmful organism host
Human food
vegetable (fide F Eur ed2; F USSR) –
Weed
(fide F BuenAir) –


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