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								Iamonico, D. (2015): Amaranthaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0 Unported).
 
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				Amaranthus L.
				
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		Regnum - Plantae 
				    
				Divisio - Tracheophyta 
				    
				    
				Subdivisio - Spermatophytina 
				    
				    
				    
				Class - Magnoliopsida 
				    
				    
				    
				    
				Superordo - Caryophyllanae 
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				Ordo - Caryophyllales 
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				Familia - Amaranthaceae Juss. 
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				    
				
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					Amaranthus acutilobus Uline & W. L. Bray
					
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					Amaranthus albus L.
					
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					Amaranthus arenicola I. M. Johnst.
					
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					Amaranthus australis (A. Gray) J. D. Sauer
					
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					Amaranthus blitoides S. Watson
					
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					Amaranthus californicus (Moq.) S. Watson
					
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					Amaranthus capensis Thell.
					
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					Amaranthus caudatus L.
					
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					Amaranthus celosioides Kunth
					
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					Amaranthus clementii Domin
					
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					Amaranthus commutatus A. Kern.
					
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					Amaranthus crassipes Schltdl.
					
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					Amaranthus crispus (Lesp. & Thévenau) J. M. Coult. & S. Watson
					
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					Amaranthus deflexus L.
					
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					Amaranthus dinteri Schinz
					
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					Amaranthus dubius Thell.
					
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					Amaranthus graecizans L.
					
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					Amaranthus interruptus R. Br.
					
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					Amaranthus macrocarpus Benth.
					
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					Amaranthus mitchelii Benth.
					
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					Amaranthus muricatus (Moq.) Hieron.
					
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					Amaranthus pallidiflorus F. Muell.
					
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					Amaranthus palmeri S. Watson
					
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					Amaranthus polygonoides L.
					
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					Amaranthus retroflexus L.
					
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					Amaranthus scleropoides Uline & W. L. Bray
					
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					Amaranthus spinosus L.
					
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					Amaranthus standleyanus Covas
					
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					Amaranthus tamariscinus Nutt.
					
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					Amaranthus thunbergii Moq.
					
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					Amaranthus tricolor L.
					
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					Amaranthus tuberculatus (Moq.) J. D. Sauer
					
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					Amaranthus viridis L.
					
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					Amaranthus watsonii Standl.
					
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					Amaranthus blitum aggr.
					
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					Amaranthus hybridus aggr.
					
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		| Common names: | 
		
				Αμάραντος (Greek)[Credits] | 
			
	
	
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		| Occurrence: | 
		
       			  Ab(A N) AE(G) Ag Al Ar Au Az(M) Be(B) Bl(M N) Br Bu Ca Co Cr Ct Cy Da Eg Es Fe Ga(F) Ge Gg(A D G) Gr He Hs(A G S) Hu It Li Lu Ma Md(M P) Mk Rf(CS) Sa Si(M S) Sl Sn Su Tn Tu(A E) Uk(K U) [nAu(A L) nAz(C F G J L P S T) nBe(L) nBH Bl(I) nBy Ca(C F G H L P T) nCg nCs aGa(C) aHb nHo nIJ nIr Jo nLa aLe aLS nLt nMo aNo nPo nRf(C E K N NW S) nRm nSk nSr aSy] |