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Amaranthus hybridus

L.
Tracheophyta » Caryophyllales » Amaranthaceae » Amaranthus hybridus
Common name (Greek)
Γλίντος
Ηabitat
I1 Arable
F7 Spiny Mediterranean
Global distribution

Canada (British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec), USA (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Mexico (Aguascalientes, Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Ciudad de Mexico, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas), Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Honduras, Nicaragua, Argentina (Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Formosa, Jujuy, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Neuquen, Salta, Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe, San Juan, Tucuman), S-Brazil (Santa Catarina), Chile (Tarapaca, Antofagasta, Coquimbo, Valparaiso, O'Higgins, Maule, Bio Bio, Araucania, Los Lagos, Juan Fdz. Isl., Reg. Metropolitana), Paraguay (Alto Paraguay), Uruguay (Montevideo), Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Lesser Antilles (St. Kitts), French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Ecuador, Venezuela (Amazonas, Anzoategui, Apure, Aragua, Barinas, Distrito Federal, Falcon, Guarico, Lara, Merida, Portuguesa, Tachira, Trujillo), SE-Brazil (Sao Paulo), Colombia (Antioquia, Bolvar, Boyac, Caldas, Cauca, Choc, Cundinamarca, Huila, Nario, Putumayo, Quindo, Santander, Tolima, Valle), Lesser Antilles (St. Kitts), Fiji (I), China (I) (Anhui (I), Gansu (I), Henan (I), Hubei (I), Hunan (I), Jiangsu (I), Jiangxi (I), Shaanxi (I), Sichuan (I), Zhejiang (I)), Belarus (I), Korea (I), Madeira (I) (Madeira Isl. (I)), Canary Isl. (I) (Gran Canaria (I), La Palma (I), Gomera (I), Tenerife (I), Lanzarote (I)), Morocco (I), Algeria (I), Tunisia (I), Libya (I), Egypt (I), Greece (I), Crete (I), East Aegaean Isl. (I), Rhodos (I), Anatolia (I), Afghanistan (I), Pakistan (I), India (I), Europe (I), Slovenia (I), Croatia (I), Albania (I), Macedonia (I), Montenegro (I), Spain (I), Andorra (I), Portugal (I), Bosnia & Hercegovina (I), European Russia (I), Estonia (a), Georgia [Caucasus] (I), Northern Caucasus (I), Azerbaijan (I), Australia (I) (Western Australia (I), Northern Territory (I), South Australia (I), Queensland (I), New South Wales (I), Victoria (I)), South Africa (I) (widespread), Namibia (I), Swaziland (I), Lesotho (I), Botswana (I), Central African Republic (I), Mozambique (I), Zambia (I), Zimbabwe (I), Cameroon (I), Sudan (I) South Sudan (I), Chad (I), Gabon (I), Bioko Isl. (Fernando Poo) (I), Burkina Faso (I), Guinea (I) 129302 0

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Habitat detail

Based on Georgiades (1995).

Establishment status
Established
Establishment status detail

Alien: Naturalized invasive.

Impacts
Negative
Pathway
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Transportation of habitat material – THM
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Seed contaminant – Seed
4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Organic packing material – Org
Pathway detail

CBD pathways per EASIN (2023), excluding UNAIDED: Natural dispersal across borders of invasive alien species that have been introduced through pathways 1 to 5.

Other notes

as Amaranthus hypochondriacus in Georgiades (1995)

References

Meikle RD (1985) Flora of Cyprus, Vol. 2.

Georgiades C (1995) Η επιγενής χλωρίδα της Κύπρου. Ταξινομική, χλωριδικά, φυτογεωγραφική, οικοφυσιολογική μελέτη. [The adventive flora of Cyprus, taxonomic, floristic, phytogeographic, ecophysiological study]. Ph.D. Thesis, Athens University.

EASIN (2023) European Commission Joint Research Centre: European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN). https://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

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University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
Darwin Initiative
Akrotiri Environment

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