Chenopodiaceae Vent.
Chenopodium ambrosioides L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 219 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in Mexico, Lusitania."
Moquin-Tandon, C.H.B.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1849), Salsolaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 13(2): 72 [secondary reference]
Hooker, J.D. (13 January 1853), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae 1(3): 213 [secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 162 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 532 [secondary reference]
Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 237 [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 85 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1912), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: 24 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 404 [secondary reference]
Domin, K. (1921), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 618 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 180 [secondary reference]
common name: Mexican Tea [n/a]
Gardner, C.A. (1925), List of the naturalised plants of extra-tropical Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 11(8): 73 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 289 [secondary reference]
common name: Mexican Tea [n/a]
Backer, C.A. (December 1949), Chenopodiaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(2): 101 [secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 164 [secondary reference]
common name: Mexican Tea [n/a]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 258-259 [secondary reference]
common name: Antweed [n/a] common name: Mexican Tea [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 101 [secondary reference]
Wilson, Paul G. (29 August 1983), A taxonomic revision of the tribe Chenopodieae (Chenopodiaceae) in Australia. Nuytsia 4(2): 167-168, Map 10 BHL [secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 120 [secondary reference]
common name: Mexican Tea [n/a]
Wilson, Paul G. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 147, Fig. 23, Map 210 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium anthelminticum L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium suffruticosum Willd. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ambrina spathulata Moq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium spathulatum (Moq.) Sieber ex Moq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium ambrosioides var. anthelminticum (L.) A.Gray legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium ambrosioides var. suffruticosum (Willd.) Graebn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium ambrosioides f. spathulatum (Moq.) Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium suffruticosum subsp. remotum Vorosch. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium integrifolium Vorosch. legitimate common name: Mexican Tea [n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 69 [secondary reference]
Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 138 [secondary reference]
common name: Mexican tea [n/a]
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 84 [secondary reference]
common name: Mexican Tea [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 281 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium anthelminticum L. legitimate common name: Mexican Tea [n/a]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 83 [secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 149, 151, Fig. 28k [secondary reference]
common name: Mexican Tea [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Chenopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 218 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium anthelminticum L. legitimate common name: Mexican Tea [n/a]
Mosyakin, S.L. & Clemants, S.E. (2002), Ukrainian Botanical Journal 59(4): 382 [basionym]
basionym of: Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Chenopodium ambrosioides L. var. ambrosioides legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Chenopodium ambrosioides suffruticosum (Willd.) Thell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Chenopodium ambrosioides L. f. ambrosioides legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium anthelminticum L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium suffruticosum Willd. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ambrina spathulata Moq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium spathulatum (Moq.) Sieber ex Moq. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium ambrosioides var. anthelminticum (L.) A.Gray legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium ambrosioides subsp. suffruticosum (Willd.) Thell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium ambrosioides var. suffruticosum (Willd.) Graebn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium ambrosioides f. spathulatum (Moq.) Aellen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium suffruticosum subsp. remotum Vorosch. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium integrifolium Vorosch. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dysphania anthelmintica (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants legitimate
  • APC Comment: Most if not all naturalised populations are of var. ambrosioides, but var. anthelminticum is known in cultivation.
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants legitimate
Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 296 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants legitimate