Blitum

Blitum

Synonymy

Blitum L., Sp. Pl. 1: 4. 1753 sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)

• ≡Morocarpus Boehm., Def. Gen. Pl., ed. 3: 385. 1760, nom. illeg., syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
• ≡Chenopodium sect. Blitum (L.) Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. 3(1): 52. 1880 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
• ≡Chenopodium sect. Eublitum Aellen in Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel 41: 103. 1930 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
• ≡Chenopodium subg. Blitum (L.) Hiitonen, Suom. Kasvio: 307. 1933 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
• Type: Morocarpus capitatus (L.) Scop.
• Type (designated by Britton & Brown 1913: 151): Chenopodium capitatum (L.) Ambrosi
• Type: Blitum capitatum L.
• Type (designated by Britton & Brown 1913: 151): Chenopodium capitatum (L.) Ambrosi
• Type (designated by Britton & Brown 1913: 151): Chenopodium capitatum (L.) Ambrosi

• 1. Britton & Brown 1913: Ill. Fl. N. U.S., ed. 2, 2

• =Anserina Dumort., Fl. Belg. 1: 21. 1827 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
• ≡Agathophytum Moq. in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., ser. 2, 1: 291. 1834, nom. illeg., syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
• ≡Orthosporum subg. Agathophytum T.Nees, Gen. Fl. Germ. [1]: ad. t. [57]. 1835 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
• ≡Chenopodium sect. Agathophytum (T.Nees) Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. 3(1): 52. 1880 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
• Type: Agathophytum bonus-henricus (L.) Moq.
• Type: Anserina bonus-henricus (L.) Dumort.

• =Monolepis Schrad. in Index Seminum Hort. Acad. Gotting. 1830: 4. 1830 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
• Type: Monolepis trifida (Trevir.) Schrad.

• =Chenopodium [unranked] Californica Standl., N. Amer. Fl. 21(1): 30. 1916 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
• Type: Chenopodium californicum (S.Watson) S.Watson

• =Chenopodium sect. Atriplicina Aellen in Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel 41: 99. 1930 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
• ≡Scleroblitum Ulbr., Nat. Pflanzenfam. (ed. 2) 16c: 495. 1934 syn. sec. Fuentes-Bazán & al. (2012b)
• Type: Scleroblitum atriplicinum (F.Muell.) Ulbr.
• Type: Chenopodium atriplicinum (F.Muell.) F.Muell.

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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.