Amaranthus crispus (Lesp. & Thévenau) A. Braun ex J. M. Coult. & S. Watson

Raab-Straube, Eckhard von & Raus, Thomas, 2025, Euro + Med-Checklist Notulae, 18, Willdenowia 55 (1), pp. 107-144 : 109

Amaranthus crispus (Lesp. & Thévenau) A. Braun ex J. M. Coult. & S. Watson

– Cm: This name was erroneously applied to alien plants found in Feodosiya (E Crimea) in 2012 ( Yena & Savchuk 2013). After re-examination of the collection, Amaranthus crispus is to be excluded from the Crimean flora, because this and subsequent records for this region ( Iamonico 2015 +; POWO 2024a), which are based on the publication mentioned above, are to be referred to A. deflexus L. The specimen in the Moscow Digital Herbarium ( Seregin 2024), collected in Sevastopol in 2017 and designated as “ A. crispus ” (available at https://plant.depo.msu.ru/public/scan.jpg?pcode=MW0599937), should be referred to A. deflexus as well. The photograph of the Feodosiya collection was discussed by botanists and amateurs on the Plantarium forum in 2013 ( Plantarium 2007 –2024), the name A. deflexus already then having been approved as correct. Therefore, there are still 10 species of the genus Amaranthus in the Crimean flora ( Yena 2012). In fact, Transcarpathian Ukraine (at Mukachevo and Uzhgorod) is the only region of the European part of the former USSR where A. crispus can be met with as a very rare alien plant ( Mosyakin 2006: 12–13; Chopyk & Fedoronchuk 2015; Iamonico 2015 +), but influential global plant databases ( GBIF 2023a, sub A. crispus (Lesp. & Thévenau) N. Terracc. ; POWO 2024a) do not map the species from this region. The specimen of A. crispus from Uzhgorod is available at https://plant.depo.msu.ru/public/scan.jpg?pcode=MHA0118228 ( Seregin 2024). A. V. Yena