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Alternanthera littoralis (sessile joyweed)

Synonyms: Alternanthera achyranthoides; Alternanthera maritima var. africana

Wikipedia Abstract

Alternanthera littoralis is an African species in the botanical family Amaranthaceae. The leaves are eaten as a vegetable.
View Wikipedia Record: Alternanthera littoralis

Infraspecies

Alternanthera littoralis var. guineensis
Alternanthera littoralis var. littoralis
Alternanthera littoralis var. sparmannii

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Alternanthera littoralis

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Annual/Perennial
Structure [1]  Herb

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Okavango Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Floodplain Rivers and Wetland Complexes    
Volta Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte D’Ivoire, Mali, Togo Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Floodplain Rivers and Wetland Complexes    

Protected Areas

Predators

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0