Achyranthes repens Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 205. 1753.

"Habitat in Turcomannia." RCN: 1681.

Replaced synonym of: Illecebrum achyranthum L. (1762), nom. illeg.

Type not designated.

Original material: [icon] in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 1: 8, t. 7, f. 7. 1732 - Typotype: Herb. Sherard (OXF) .

Current name: Alternanthera pungens (L.) Kunth ( Amaranthaceae).

Note: Melville (in Kew Bull. 13: 173. 1958) designated a cultivated specimen in the Sherard herbarium (OXF) as the holotype but this would not have been seen by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.