Amaranthus hypochondriacus

Taxonomy ID: 28502 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:28502)

current name

Amaranthus hypochondriacus  L., 1753

Genbank common name: grain amaranth
NCBI BLAST name: eudicots
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Other names:

heterotypic synonym

Amaranthus hypocondriacus

heterotypic synonym

Amaranthus hybridus var. erythrostachys  Moq., 1849

common name(s)

prince's feather

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; Caryophyllales; Amaranthaceae; Amaranthus

Comments and References:

image:Amaranthus hypochondriacus Image by misumeta from iNaturalist under a CC BY-NC license. * Image may not have been verified for accuracy by NCBI Taxonomy.

FNA - Amaranthaceae Robertson KR and Clemants SE. 1997. Amaranthaceae Jussieu. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Eds.) Flora of North America North of Mexico, Vol. 4: Magnoliophyta: Caryophyllidae, Part 1. New York and Oxford. On-line version.

FNA - Amaranthus Mosyakin SL and Robertson KR. 2004. Amaranthus Linnaeus. In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Eds.) Flora of North America North of Mexico, Vol. 4: Magnoliophyta: Caryophyllidae, Part 1. New York and Oxford. On-line version.

GRIN (Sept 11, 2012) Name accessed on 11 September 2012 in: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.

Flora of China - Amaranthaceae Bojian Bao, Thomas Borsch & Steven E. Clemants. Amaranthaceae A. L. Jussieu. In Wu, Z. Y., P. H. Raven & D. Y. Hong, eds. 2003. Flora of China. Vol. 5 (Ulmaceae through Basellaceae). Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.