Amaranthus L.
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Biostatus
Nomenclature
L.
L.
1753
989-991
ICN
Amaranthus L.
genus
Amaranthus
Classification
Subordinates
- Amaranthus albus
- Amaranthus blitoides
- Amaranthus blitum
- Amaranthus blitum
- Amaranthus caudatus
- Amaranthus cruentus
- Amaranthus deflexus
- Amaranthus graecizans
- Amaranthus hybridus
- Amaranthus hypochondriacus
- Amaranthus lividus
- Amaranthus oleraceus
- Amaranthus palmeri
- Amaranthus powellii
- Amaranthus retroflexus
- Amaranthus spinosus
- Amaranthus tricolor
- Amaranthus tuberculatus
- Amaranthus viridis
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Descriptions
Amaranthus L.
Annual, rarely perennial, usually monoecious, sometimes dioecious, prostrate to erect herbs. Lvs alternate, entire. Infl. cymose, composed of axillary or terminal spikes; spikes sessile or pedunculate, solitary or clustered (paniculate). Fls densely arranged and each subtended by a bract and 2 bracteoles; bracts and bracteoles occasionally spiny, often varying in length in each cymose cluster. Tepals (2)-3 or (4)-5, membranous, green, brown, red, or hyaline, persistent. Stamens as many as tepals, free; staminodes 0. Stylar branches 2-3-(4), with stigmatic surface to near base; ovule 1, sessile. Fr. dry, membranous, indehiscent, or dehiscent and circumscissile; pericarp usually smooth, enclosed in persistent perianth. Seed usually glossy, smooth and black or dark brown.
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
26 August 2008