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Alternanthera flavicoma; photograph (c) Andrea Gantzer, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Andrea Gantzer, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2017-02-01

Alternanthera flavicoma (Andersson) J.T.Howell

Amaranthaceae · Galápagos

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Alternanthera flavicoma (Andersson) J.T.Howell: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Andersson) Howell.

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Summary

Alternanthera flavicoma is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is endemic to the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Alternanthera flavicoma", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 12 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 12 of the 12 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeGalápagos · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-0.933, -89.637 · in the densest population, 12 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 12 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 7 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 12 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 12 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Andrea Gantzer, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Leonel Roget, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

Other Alternanthera 19 in the reference

Alternanthera aquatica Alternanthera aquatica Hassler's alternanthera Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizAlternanthera bettzickiana Alternanthera bettzickiana Calico-plant Photo: CC BY, Silvia TenAlternanthera brasiliana Alternanthera brasiliana Brazilian joyweed Photo: CC BY, Richard LittauerAlternanthera caracasana Alternanthera caracasana Washerwoman Photo: CC0, author not statedAlternanthera denticulata Alternanthera denticulata Lesser joyweed Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyAlternanthera echinocephala Alternanthera echinocephala Sea-urchin joyweed Photo: CC BY, Mike BradyAlternanthera ficoidea Alternanthera ficoidea Amaranthaceae Photo: CC BY, Andrew AllenAlternanthera filifolia Alternanthera filifolia Three-leafed chaff flower Photo: CC BY, Jacob SaucierAlternanthera flavescens Alternanthera flavescens Yellow joyweed Photo: CC BY, Kenzie Anderson-BellAlternanthera halimifolia Alternanthera halimifolia Hairy joyweed Photo: CC BY, Ellky Arteta ParedesAlternanthera nahui Alternanthera nahui Nahui Photo: CC BY, William HarlandAlternanthera paronychioides Alternanthera paronychioides Smooth joyweed Photo: CC BY, Adam Kamal all 20 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Achyranthes flavicoma; Telanthera flavicoma. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Amaranthaceae
Described by
(Andersson) J.T.Howell
Native to
Galápagos
Wild records
12 in range · 3 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21GBIF's key 3676465 is Alternanthera flavicoma (Andersson) Howell; the page links Kew's Alternanthera flavicoma (Andersson) J.T.Howell, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2112 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Alternanthera flavicoma (Andersson) J.T.Howell (the item's: IPNI 59180-1, POWO 10349-2)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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