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Dysphania pusilla; photograph (c) Aalbert Rebergen, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Aalbert Rebergen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2016-04-06

Dysphania pusilla Mosyakin & Clemants

Pygmy goosefoot

Amaranthaceae · New Zealand North, New Zealand South

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Dysphania pusilla Mosyakin & Clemants: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Hook.fil.) Mosyakin & Clemants.

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Summary

Dysphania pusilla, formerly Chenopodium pusillum, otherwise known as pygmy goosefoot or parahia in Māori, is a prostrate herb endemic to the north-eastern parts of South Island, New Zealand. Presumed extinct after 56 years without recorded observations, the species was rediscovered in 2015.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Dysphania pusilla", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 34 of the 37 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.
NativeNew Zealand North, New Zealand South · 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-44.292, 170.118 · in the densest population, 26 records (70% of those in range)
Kew's description“temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 37 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 25 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 9 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 34 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 37 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) Aalbert Rebergen, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Dysphania 9 in the reference

Dysphania ambrosioides Dysphania ambrosioides Mexican tea Photo: CC BY, Antoine ThivolleDysphania anthelmintica Dysphania anthelmintica Wormseed Photo: CC BY, mel lettermanDysphania atriplicifolia Dysphania atriplicifolia Winged pigweed Photo: CC BY, Michael, Antoni and Nihat HinczewskiDysphania botrys Dysphania botrys Jerusalem oak goosefoot Photo: CC BY, Don LoarieDysphania carinata Dysphania carinata Keeled goosefoot Photo: CC0, author not statedDysphania incisa Dysphania incisa Fetid goosefoot Photo: CC0, Craig MartinDysphania multifida Dysphania multifida Cutleaf goosefoot Photo: CC BY, River AhlquistDysphania pumilio Dysphania pumilio Clammy goosefoot Photo: CC0, author not statedDysphania schraderiana Dysphania schraderiana Schrader Goosefoot Photo: CC BY, Oleksandr Shynder

Names & registers

Also known as Chenopodium pusillum; Neobotrydium pusillum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Amaranthaceae
Described by
Mosyakin & Clemants
Native to
New Zealand North, New Zealand South
Wild records
37 in range · 25 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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 7706414 is Dysphania pusilla (Hook.fil.) Mosyakin & Clemants; the page links Kew's Dysphania pusilla Mosyakin & Clemants, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-22none 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
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 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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