Blitum
Synonymy
Blitum, Sp. Pl. 1: 4. 1753 sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
- ≡Morocarpus, Def. Gen. Pl., ed. 3: 385. 1760, nom. illeg., syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
- ≡Chenopodium sect. Blitum, Gen. Pl. 3(1): 52. 1880 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
- ≡Chenopodium sect. Eublitum in Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel 41: 103. 1930 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
- ≡Chenopodium subg. Blitum, Suom. Kasvio: 307. 1933 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
- Type: Morocarpus capitatus
- Type (designated by Britton & Brown 1913: 151): Chenopodium capitatum
- Type: Blitum capitatum
- Type (designated by Britton & Brown 1913: 151): Chenopodium capitatum
- Type (designated by Britton & Brown 1913: 151): Chenopodium capitatum
- =Anserina, Fl. Belg. 1: 21. 1827 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
- ≡Agathophytum in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., ser. 2, 1: 291. 1834, nom. illeg., syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
- ≡Orthosporum subg. Agathophytum, Gen. Fl. Germ. [1]: ad. t. [57]. 1835 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
- ≡Chenopodium sect. Agathophytum, Gen. Pl. 3(1): 52. 1880 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
- =Monolepis in Index Seminum Hort. Acad. Gotting. 1830: 4. 1830 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
- Type: Monolepis trifida
- =Chenopodium [unranked] Californica, N. Amer. Fl. 21(1): 30. 1916 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
- Type: Chenopodium californicum
Content
Notes
In the last century the Linnean Blitum, with its two species B. capitatum and B. virgatum L., was usually merged with Chenopodium s.l. (e.g. Aellen 1929; Iljin & Aellen 1936; Aellen & Just 1943; Aellen 1960-61; Grubov 1966; Brenan & Akeroyd 1993; Mosyakin 1996; Uotila 1997, 2001a-b; Clemants & Mosyakin 2003), or rarely recognized in the original Linnean circumscription (Scott 1978a). However, the resurrection of this genus based on phylogenetic reconstruction supports a monophyletic lineage and a wide concept of Blitum including c. ten species (Fuentes-Bazán & al. 2012b), most of them in the Northern hemisphere and one (B. atriplicimum F. Muell.) in Australia. Blitum belongs to the tribe Anserineae.