Amaranthaceae Juss.
Amaranthus caudatus L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 990 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in Peru, Persia, Zeylona."
Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 213 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 397 [secondary reference]
common name: Love-lies-bleeding [n/a]
Backer, C.A. (December 1949), Amaranthaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(2): 80 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 72 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Amaranthaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 93 [secondary reference]
common name: Love Lies Bleeding [n/a]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Amaranthaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 202 [secondary reference]
Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1: 27 [secondary reference]
common name: Tassel Flower [n/a] common name: Love-lies-bleeding [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 474 [secondary reference]
common name: Love Lies Bleeding [n/a]
National Herbarium of New South Wales (2007), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]
common name: Princes Feathers [n/a] common name: Tassel Flower [n/a] common name: Love-lies-bleeding [n/a]
Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]
common name: Love Lies Bleeding [n/a]
Palmer, J. (2 June 2009), A conspectus of the genus Amaranthus (Amaranthaceae) in Australia. Nuytsia 19(1): 111 [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (formerly naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)
Bayon, N.D. (2015), Revisión Taxonómica de las Especies Monoicas de Amaranthus (Amaranthaceae): Amaranthus subg. Amaranthus y Amaranthus subg. Albersia. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 101(2): 276-279, Fig. 6 [secondary reference]
Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2016), Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2016: 18 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "...a new doubtfully naturalised species for Queensland..."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Amarantus caudatus Hook.f. orth. var.
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (formerly naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (doubtfully naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)