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Alternanthera
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Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
Comments: Accepted as a native non-endemic Texan species by Kartesz (1999 floristic synthesis).
Annual or perennial herbs with entire, opposite leaves. Inflorescences of axillary heads or short spikes, bracteate. Flowers bisexual, solitary in the axil of each bract, subtended by 2 bracteoles. Tepals 5, glabrous and 1-nerved or barbed-pilose and 3-nerved, free, equal or unequal. Stamens 2-5, alternating with pseudostaminodes. Fruit an indehiscent capsule.
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Rights holder/Author | Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Flora of Zimbabwe |
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Depth range based on 22 specimens in 5 taxa.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 0.5 - 1
Graphical representation
Depth range (m): 0.5 - 1
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Rights holder/Author | Ocean Biogeographic Information System |
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:94
Specimens with Sequences:129
Specimens with Barcodes:92
Species:20
Species With Barcodes:19
Public Records:38
Public Species:14
Public BINs:0
United States
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
Chile Central
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Rights holder/Author | Pablo Gutierrez, IABIN |
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Isotype for Alternanthera asterotricha Uline
Catalog Number: US 694294
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): G. Gaumer
Locality: Yucatan Peninsula., Mexico, Central America
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Isotype for Alternanthera asterotricha Uline
Catalog Number: US 1267300
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): G. F. Gaumer
Locality: Yucatán, Mexico, North America
- Isotype: Uline, E. B. 1899. Publ. Field Columbian Mus., Bot. Ser. 1: 419.
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