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Basella alba

Plant photographs and field observations.

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Species notes

About Basella alba

Basella alba (also recorded as Spinach) is an accepted species in the family Basellaceae, within the order Caryophyllales. Checklist records aggregated by GBIF list it from Alabama, Andaman Is., Angola, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Borneo, and Brazil Southeast. The photographs can be compared for visible features such as growth habit, leaf arrangement, stems, flowers and fruit.

Common name
Spinach
Family
Basellaceae
Order
Caryophyllales
Identification rank
Species
Recorded distribution
Alabama, Andaman Is., Angola, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Borneo, Brazil Southeast

Taxonomy source: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy