Amaranthus lividus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 990. 1753.

"Habitat in Virginia." RCN: 7173.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Bauhin & Cherler, Hist. Pl. Univ. 2: 966. 1651.

Current name: Amaranthus blitum L. ( Amaranthaceae).

Note: The typification of this name is somewhat complicated. Aellen (in Rechinger, Fl. Iranica 91: 8. 1972) indicated 1174.14 (LINN) as type, but this sheet is annotated in such a way as to link it with A. blitum L., of which it is the type. Various authors have therefore rejected Aellen’s choice as having been ineligible (i.e. not original material for the name), and most have followed a neotypification by Townsend (in Nasir & Ali, Fl. W. Pakistan 71: 17. 1974). However, Linnaeus’ third synonym is an account by Bauhin and Cherler, accompanied by an illustration. While Linnaeus did qualify the inclusion of this illustration with a “?”, this cannot justify its exclusion from the protologue, and its existence (as an original element) precludes the designation of a neotype.