Cyathula involucrata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Diaphoretickes
Cladus: CAM
Cladus: Archaeplastida
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Amaranthaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Amaranthoideae
Genus: Cyathula
Species: Cyathula involucrata

Name

Cyathula involucrata (Moq.) Di Vincenzo, Berends., Wondafr. & Borsch, Taxon 74(1): 89 (2024).

Synonyms

  • Basionym
    • Achyranthes involucrata Moq., in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 310. (1849)
      • Holotype: NIGERIA. Village of Pandiaki, 17 Sep 1841, Vogel s.n.. K K000243731; Isotype: K K000243732.
  • Homotypic
    • Pandiaka involucrata (Moq.) B.D.Jacks., Index Kew. 1(1): 25. (1893), Index Kew. 2: 409. (1894)
    • "Pandiaka involucrata (Moq.) Benth. & Hook.f.", Gen. Pl. [Bentham & Hooker f.] 3(1): 35. (1880), nom. inval.
    • Pandiaka involucrata (Moq.) Baker & C.B.Clarke, Fl. Trop. Afr. [Oliver et al.] 6(1.1): 67. (1909), isonym
    • Centrostachys involucrata (Moq.) Standl., J. Washington Acad. Sci. 5: 76. (1915)
  • Heterotypic
    • Pandiaka involucrata var. megastachya Suess., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 44: 46. (1938)
      • Holotype: NIGERIA. Naraguta, H.V. Lely 239. K K000243733.
    • "Achyranthes capitata Moq.", in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 310. (1849), nom. inval. in syn.
    • Achyranthes nodosa Vahl ex Schumach.. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 139. (1827)
    • Pandiaka nodosa (Vahl ex Schumach.) Schinz, in H.G.A.Engler, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 16c: 64. (1934)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
  • Africa
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Benin, Burkina, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo
    • West-Central Tropical Africa
      • Cameroon, Central African Republic
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Chad, Sudan
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Tanzania
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

  • Di Vincenzo, V., Berendsohn, W., Wondafrash, M. & Borsch, T. 2025. Phylogenetics and morphological character evolution in the achyranthoid clade (Amaranthaceae): Evidence to re-circumscribe the genera Achyranthes and Cyathula and to resurrect a third species of the former genus Sericocomopsis in East Africa. Taxon 74(1): 66–100. DOI: 10.1002/tax.13284Open access Reference page. 
  • Jackson, B.D. 1893. Index Kewensis plantarum phanerogamarum. Nomina et synonyma omnium generum et specierum a Linnaeo usque ad annum MDCCCLXXXV complectens nomine recepto auctore patria unicuique plantae subjectis sumptibus beati Caroli Roberti Darwin ductu et consilio Josephi D. Hooker confecit B. Daydon Jackson. Tomus I, Fasc. I. Pp. 1–632. E Prelo Clarendoniano, Oxonii [Oxford]. BHL Reference page. 
  • Moquin-Tandon, A. 1849. Amarantaceae. In: De Candolle, A.P. (ed.): Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 13(2): 231–424. Masson, Paris. BHL. Reference page.