Deeringia amaranthoides is a species of plant in the Amaranthaceae family and is distributed from the western Himalayas east across southern China, down through south east Asia and Indonesia, across New Guinea to parts of Australia.[1]
| Deeringia amaranthoides | |
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| Deeringia amaranthoides fruit | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus: | Deeringia |
| Species: | D. amaranthoides
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| Deeringia amaranthoides | |
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It was first described as Achyranthes amaranthoides by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1785[2] and reclassified as Deeringia amaranthoides by Elmer Drew Merrill in 1917.[3]
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References edit
- ^ "Deeringia amaranthoides (Lam.) Merr". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
- ^ Lamarck, Jean Baptiste; Poiret, Jean Louis Marie (1783). Encyclopédie méthodique: botanique /Par m. le chevalier de Lamarck. Vol. 1. Paris,Liège: Panckoucke;Plomteux. p. 548.
- ^ Merrill, Elmer Drew; Robinson, Charles Budd (1917). An interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium amboinense. Manila: Bureau of printing. p. 211.
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