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Amaranthus caudatus

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Identification
Amaranthus caudatus L. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Amaranthus caudatus
  • Amaranthus not on sheet
  • Amaranthus alopecurus
  • Amaranthus cruentus
Common name
  • bσrσbσrε (FCD) bσrч̃ (FCD) bσrч̃-mbεdε (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ìnyàη˚ áfiá (Lowe) (NIGERIA, EFIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ìnìnè applies to Amaranthus genus generally (JMD) ìnìnè olū, olū: farm (NWT; JMD) (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • sσbuε (FRI) AKAN-ASANTE σtofammen red form, ben or men: red (FRI) (GHANA, ADANGME-KROBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • amarante du Soudan; épinard du Soudan (Busson): queue de renard (Walker)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • yambεli-na (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU-DYALONKE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • muσtsu red forms (FRI) sσbu green forms (FRI) (GHANA, ADANGME), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ẹ̀fọ́o tẹ̀tẹ̀, èfó: vegetable (JMD) tẹ̀tẹ̀ = trample, trample (Verger) tẹ̀tẹ̀ ńlá, nla: big (JMD) tẹ̀tẹ̀ òyìbó = white man’s tete (JMD) tẹ̀tẹ̀ pòpó = Dahomey tete (JMD) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • haako ndiyam = water leaf (JMD; J&D) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • boron (JMD) moron (JMD) (GUINEA, MANINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • lolo (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, VAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • Leone) boroboro (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, FULA-PULAAR (Sierra), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • boron (JMD) boron gbé green form (FB) boron ulé purple form (FB) moron (JMD) moron dye green form (FB) (MALI, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • fondolo red form (JMD; FCD) fondolo-bεndoŋ (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bσrẻbσrε (FCD) bσrч̃ (FCD) bσrч̃-m-bεdε (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, MANINKA (Koranko)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kashia (JMD) URHOBO o#te#te# (JMD) (NIGERIA, TIV), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • hσndi (FCD) hσndi-gbogboli red form (JMD) hσndi-gowuli = white hondi, i.e., green form (JMD) hσndi-guli green form (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • Love-lies-bleeding, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • gbuhaŋga (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, LIMBA (Tonko)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • mando (FCD) n-dolo (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, GOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • grins-ε (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, BULOM (Sherbro)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • sedi boegui purple form (FB) sedi oregui green form (FB) sedi pelevegui bullous-leafed form (FB) (GUINEA, LOMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • grins = greens (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KRIO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • purple amaranth, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • bredo femea (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • mbuma (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • fondulo green form (FB) fondulo saman purple form (FB) fondulo sankura bullous-leafed form (FB) (GUINEA, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • a-bonthila (auctt.) a-senduku cultivated forms (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • èbáfọ̄ (JMD) (NIGERIA, EDO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • hσndi (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • quilete, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • enὲp (LB) (NIGERIA, BEROM), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bσrebσre-ba (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, LIMBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bura bura ba (JB) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • spinach; African spinach; Inca wheat (S America); bush greens (Sierra Leone, Deighton); love-lies-ableeding (forms with red or purple leaves and inflorescences)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ẹfo (Elliott) (NIGERIA, YORUBA (Lokoja)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • (Pecí) madzẽ red form (FRI) (GHANA, GBE-VHE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • áláyyafóo, àláyyáfuú (auctt.) hakondiyam (ZOG) námíjìn gaásàyaá = male Gynandropsis; applies to Amaranthus genus generally (JMD) námíjìn zaákií bánzaá applies to several domestic weeds (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • εfan, fan green forms, and incl. various pot herbs (FRI; JMD) (GHANA, TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • foxt ail amaranth, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • bóró (GUINEA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • mbum i dyombor (JMD) mbum i kör = spinach of the house (JGA) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bσbσε (FCD) bσbσ-wa (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for AMARANTHUS dubius Mart. ex Thell. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. C. Townsend [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
AMARANTHUS dubius Mart. ex Thell. [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1912).
AMARANTHUS spinosus Lauterb. & K. Schum. forma inermis [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1901).
AMARANTHUS caudatus [family AMARANTHACEAE], sensu Chiov., Fl. Somala 2: 374 (1932).
AMARANTHUS spinosus [family AMARANTHACEAE], sensu Kuchar, Plants of Somalia: 85 (1988).
Information
Erect annual, mostly up to 90(–150) cm, similar in habit to A. spinosus and with similar leaf-size and shape, but often less coarse. Paired axillary spines absent. Lower flower clusters axillary, female, 4–10 mm in diam.; upper clusters leafless, forming simple or (the terminal at least) branched spikes 3–15(–25) cm long and 6–8(–10) cm wide, the spikes male for up to c. the apical 1 cm. Tepals of female flowers (4–)5, 1.5–2.75 mm, oblong or spathulate-oblong, obtuse or sometimes (especially towards the male flowers) acute, mucronulate, usually with a greenish dorsal vitta above. Stigmas 3. Capsule ovoid-urceolate, c. 1.5–1.75 mm, with a short inflated beak below the style-base, circumscissile, the lid strongly rugulose. Seeds faintly reticulate, lenticular.
Range
S1, 2 of tropical American origin, now widespread in the tropics of both Old and New Worlds.
Altitude range
no altitude.
Distribution
SOMALIA Confalone 6; Puccioni & Stefanini 351; Paoli & Stefanini 421.
Notes
A. dubius is the only known polyploid Amaranthus, but its origin remains uncertain. Hybrids are said to be frequent where it occurs in association with A. spinosus; the two species are very similar apart from the axillary spines of the latter. Srivasta, Pal & Nair in Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 23: 287–291 (1977) claim that the pollen of A. dubius has larger pores than that of A. spinosus, and that the hybrids are distinguishable by the presence of micrograins among the pollen.

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