Amaranthus blitum subsp. oleraceus (L.) Costea
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Amaranthus blitum var. polygonoides Moq. |
| synonym | Amaranthus lividus L. |
| synonym | Amaranthus mucronatus Poir. |
| synonym | Amaranthus oleraceus L. |
🗒 Common Names
| Assamese |
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| English |
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📚 Overview
SubSpecies Varieties Races
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Cyclicity
Flower : Autumn
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Morphology
A procumbent herb. Leaves small, 2-lobed. Flowers in axillary clusters. Utricle membranous, orbicular or broadly ovate, indehiscent. Grows on open areas mixed with other herbs
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
annual, erect or decumbent, glabrous, leases long-petioled oblong-ovate or rounded obtuse retuse or 2-lobed, base aciyte, clusters all axillary or the upper in a dense or lax spike, sepals 3 shorter than the utricle linear-oblong or -lanceolate obtuse and apiculate or acute, utricle orbicular or broadly ovate membranous dehiscent or not.
procumbent, leaves small 2-lobed, sepals oblong obtuse apiculate, clusters small all axillary, utricle indehiscent.
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
Genetics
2n = 34
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Meghalaya
Local Distribution
Assam
Global Distribution
Native: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay Introduced Into: Alabama, Arkansas, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belgium, Cameroon, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, France, French Guiana, Greece, Guyana, Hainan, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Laos, Madeira, Manchuria, Morocco, Nepal, New York, Norfolk Is., Ontario, Puerto Rico, Québec, Rwanda, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tibet, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Windward Is., Xinjiang, Zaïre
Indian Distribution
Assam, Sikkim and across India
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Siddha
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=145
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=145 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Leaves and tender shoots are used as vegetable
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=145
- Flora of China. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242302535 (Accessed on 01 May 2018)
- Nehal, N., Mann, S. and Gupta, R. K. 2016. Nutritional and phytochemical evaluationof A.lividus L. syn. Amaranthus blitum subsp. Oleraceus (L.) Costea leaves. Indian Journal Of Traditional Knowledge Vol. 15(4): 669-674. http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/35250/1/IJTK%2015%284%29%20669-674.pdf
- Plants of the World Online. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:10619-2 (Accessed on 01 May 2018)
- Hooker, J. D. 1885. Flora of British India. Vol. 4. Part XII. p513-780. L. Reeve and Co., London. https://archive.org/details/floraofbritishin04hookrich
- JSTOR - Global Plants database. https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/AMARANTHUS.Blitum (Accessed on 01 May 20180
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=145
- Flora of China. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242302535 (Accessed on 01 May 2018)
- Nehal, N., Mann, S. and Gupta, R. K. 2016. Nutritional and phytochemical evaluationof A.lividus L. syn. Amaranthus blitum subsp. Oleraceus (L.) Costea leaves. Indian Journal Of Traditional Knowledge Vol. 15(4): 669-674. http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/35250/1/IJTK%2015%284%29%20669-674.pdf
- Plants of the World Online. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:10619-2 (Accessed on 01 May 2018)
- Hooker, J. D. 1885. Flora of British India. Vol. 4. Part XII. p513-780. L. Reeve and Co., London. https://archive.org/details/floraofbritishin04hookrich
- JSTOR - Global Plants database. https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/AMARANTHUS.Blitum (Accessed on 01 May 20180
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl |
| Family | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus | Amaranthus |
| Species | Amaranthus blitum L. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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