Centemopsis micranthaChiov. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Centemopsis micranthaChiov. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
Centemopsis micrantha
Flora
Entry for CENTEMOPSIS micrantha Chiov. [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]
Annual or perhaps short-lived perennial when grazed, 14–75 cm, with wiry, strongly striate stems, thinly pilose about the nodes or young leaves or glabrous, branched from the base upward. Leaves linear-filiform to linear, those of the stem 15–50 x 0.5–3 mm. Inflorescence spike-like, c. 1.2–5 x 0.5–0.7 cm, rose-pink to reddish-purple, elongating in fruit; axis white-lanate, sulcate. Flowers solitary, bracteoles wider than bracts. Tepals 2.5–3 mm, ovate to (the inner) subpanduriform, the outer finally strongly indurate at the strongly 3-nerved base, the inner 3 gradually narrower and less firm. Stamens c. 1.5–2.5 mm, the pseudostaminodes ± oblong, denticulate to fimbriate above. Ovary totally glabrous or rarely with a thin scattering of deflexed hairs about the middle. Style 1–1.5 mm. Capsule ovoid, c. 2 mm.
Has been confused with C. gracilenta (Hiern) Schinz, from which it differs in its glabrous or almost glabrous ovary (with a dense central beard of lanate hairs in C. gracilenta) and in the much more indurate base of the fruiting perianth.
