Moquin-Tandon, C.H.B.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1849), Amarantaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 13(2): 382 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Brazil: in monte Jacobinâ prope Bahiam, Blanchet 3881

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 538 [basionym]

basionym of: Alternanthera brasiliana var. villosa (Moq.) Kuntze legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Alternanthera brasiliana var. villosa (Moq.) Kuntze legitimate

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