View source for Alternanthera ficoidea var. bettzickiana

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|accepted_name=Alternanthera ficoidea var. bettzickiana
|accepted_authority=(Regel) Backer in C. G. G. J. van Steenis
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in C. G. G. J. van Steenis, Fl. Males. Ser.
|place=1, 4: 93. 1949
|year=1949
}}
|common_names=Calicoplant;parrotleaf
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Telanthera bettzickiana
|authority=Regel
|rank=species
|publication_title=Gartenflora
|publication_place=11: 178. 1862
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alternanthera tenella var. bettzickiana
|authority=(Regel) Veldkamp
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Amaranthaceae;Alternanthera;Alternanthera ficoidea;Alternanthera ficoidea var. bettzickiana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Amaranthaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Alternanthera]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Alternanthera ficoidea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Alternanthera ficoidea var. bettzickiana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 450
|treatment_page=page 449
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial, often suffrutescent at base, 0.7–1 dm. <b>Stems</b> erect, ascending, prostrate, or decumbent, villous or gray-pubescent, glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> sessile; blade rhombic-ovate to rhombic-obovate, 1–6 × 0.7–2.2 cm, herbaceous, apex acuminate to acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, sessile; heads stramineous to white, globose, ovoid, or short cylindric, 0.5–1.2 × 0.5–6 cm; bracts less than 1/2 as long as tepals. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals monomorphic, whitish to stramineous, lanceolate, oblong, or ovate-oblong, 2.2–2.5 mm, margins chartaceous, apex acute to acuminate, mucronate, pilose or hispid; stamens 5; anthers 5, oblong; pseudo-staminodes lanceolate, equaling or exceeding filaments, margins fimbriate. <b>Utricles</b> included within tepals, stramineous, ovoid to subglobose, 1.8–2 mm, apex acuminate. <b>Seeds</b> 1 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter.
|habitat=Waste places
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;South America (Brazil);widely cultivated throughout the tropics.
|discussion=<p>Because of its varicolored foliage, var. bettzichiana is widely cultivated. Unconfirmed reports of its spread from cultivation include California and Maryland. Variety flavogrisea (hairy joyweed), similar to var. bettzichiana but green throughout and with oblong, ovate, elliptic, or oval leaves, has been reported from Texas, but no specimens have been seen.</p>
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name=Alternanthera ficoidea var. bettzickiana
|authority=(Regel) Backer in C. G. G. J. van Steenis
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=Alternanthera tenella var. bettzickiana
|basionyms=Telanthera bettzickiana
|family=Amaranthaceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter.
|habitat=Waste places
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;South America (Brazil);widely cultivated throughout the tropics.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in C. G. G. J. van Steenis, Fl. Males. Ser.
|publication year=1949
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_883.xml
|genus=Alternanthera
|species=Alternanthera ficoidea
|variety=Alternanthera ficoidea var. bettzickiana
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