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|accepted_name=Alternanthera brasiliana
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Kuntze
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Revis. Gen. Pl.
|place=2: 537. 1891
|year=1891
}}
|common_names=Brazilian joyweed
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Gomphrena brasiliana
|authority=Linnaeus
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Amaranthaceae;Alternanthera;Alternanthera brasiliana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Amaranthaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Alternanthera]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Alternanthera brasiliana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 448
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or subshrubs, annual or perennial, 5–6 dm. <b>Stems</b> erect, villous, glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> sessile; blade ovate to lanceolate, 1–7 × 0.7–1 cm, herbaceous, villous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, pedunculate; heads white, globose, 0.7–1 cm diam.; bracts keeled, shorter than to equaling tepals. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals monomorphic, green to stramineous, lanceolate, 3–4 mm, apex acuminate, villous, hairs not barbed; stamens 5; pseudostaminodes ligulate, margins fimbriate. <b>Utricles</b> included within tepals, brown, ellipsoid, 2 mm, apex acute. <b>Seeds</b> ovoid-oblong, 1.4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Sandy, wet, disturbed sites
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America (Belize;Guatemala;Honduras;Nicaragua);South America.
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name=Alternanthera brasiliana
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) Kuntze
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Gomphrena brasiliana
|family=Amaranthaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Sandy, wet, disturbed sites
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America (Belize;Guatemala;Honduras;Nicaragua);South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Revis. Gen. Pl.
|publication year=1891
|special status=
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|genus=Alternanthera
|species=Alternanthera brasiliana
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