Deeringia amaranthoides

Deeringia amaranthoides is a species of plant in the Amaranthaceae family and is distributed from the western Himalayas east across southern China, down through south east Asia and Indonesia, across New Guinea to parts of Australia.^[1]

Deeringia amaranthoides
Deeringia amaranthoides fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Amaranthaceae
Genus:	Deeringia
Species:	D. amaranthoides
Binomial name
Deeringia amaranthoides (Lam.) Merr.
Synonyms
Achyranthes amaranthoides Lam. Celosia amaranthoides (Lam.) Medik. Celosia baccata Retz. Cladostachys amaranthoides (Lam.) K.C.Kuan Cladostachys frutescens D.Don Coilosperma cordata Raf. Deeringia baccata (Retz.) Moq. Deeringia celosioides R.Br. Deeringia indica Retz. ex Blume Deeringia virgata Zipp. ex Span. Gomphrena amaranthoides (Lam.) Roth Phytolacca gracilis Herb. ex Moq.

It was first described as Achyranthes amaranthoides by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1785^[2] and reclassified as Deeringia amaranthoides by Elmer Drew Merrill in 1917.^[3]

Description