Amaranthus cruentus Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1269. 1759.

["Habitat in China."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1406 (1763). RCN: 7186.

Lectotype (Townsend in Nasir & Ali, Fl. W. Pakistan 71: 12. 1974): Herb. Linn. No. 1117.25 (LINN) .

Current name: Amaranthus cruentus L. ( Amaranthaceae).

Note: Stevels (in Wageningen Agric. Univ. Pap. 90-1: 106. 1990) gave an extensive review, but wrongly attributed the typification to Sauer (in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 54: 122. 1967), who discussed the specimen but did not treat it as the type.