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Amaranthus oleraceus

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Identification
Amaranthus oleraceus L. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Amaranthus blitum L. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Amaranthus oleraceus
  • Amaranthus blitum
Common name
  • efai (Rattray) (GHANA, AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • pélé uluzedigpoie (FB) (GUINEA, LOMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • wild amaranth, green amaranth., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • (‘Ibugo’) ìnìnè ḿmē (NWT) (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • fondulo (FB) (GUINEA, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ìnyàη˚ (RFGA) (NIGERIA, EFIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bredo femea (EPdS) (GUINEA-BISSAU, CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • mbum bu digèn = female spinach (JGA) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • boromonema (FB) (GUINEA, MANDING-MANINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for AMARANTHUS oleraceus Linn. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
AMARANTHUS oleraceus Linn. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 1403. —Forsk. Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. cxxi.
AMARANTHUS Blitum Hook. f. var. oleracea [family AMARANTHACEAE], Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 721.
Euxolus viridis Moquin [family ], in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 273; ? Hook. Niger Fl. 492.
Albersia oleracea Kunth [family ], Fl. Berol. ii. 144; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 991.
Information
Inflorescence copiously axillary, the terminal running into a dense cylindric leafless mass; otherwise as A. polygamus, Linn.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Machemga, Johnson, 269!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. near Mbashe Lagoon, Scott! near Zomba, Whyte!Abyssinia Nile Land near Adowa, Schimper, 1069!Senegal Upper Guinea Farmar, 3! 24!
Notes
In all warm countries—a weed.

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