Abstract: During the years of 1992-1997, the author had made a number of collections of the plants specimens about 1500 numbers in 20 counties and cities of River Huai plain of north Anhui province. The identified result shows that a species reported in this paper are recorded for the first time in China. The is D. arvensis Forsk. All the voucher specimens are housed in the Herbrium of resource, Anhui university (AUR).

Key words: China, Amaranthaceae, D. arvensis