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AMARANTHUS L. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 L. [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1753)—Aellen in Hegi, Ill. Fl. Mitteleur. 3,2: 465–516 (1959); Townsend in Publ. Cairo Univ. Herb. 7 & 8: 63–66 (1977).
Information
Annual or more rarely perennial herbs, glabrous or furnished with short and gland-like or multicellular hairs. Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, entire or sinuate. Inflorescence basically cymose, bracteate, formed of dense to lax axillary clusters or the upper clusters leafless and ± approximate to form a dense or lax “spike” or panicle. Flowers dioecious (not in Somalia) or monoecious. Tepals (2–)3–5, free or almost so, those of the female flowers somewhat accrescent in fruit. Stamens usually isomerous with the tepals, free. Ovary 1-ovulate. Stigmas 2–3. Fruit a dry, indehiscent, irregularly rupturing or circumscissile capsule. Seed usually compressed, black and shining.
Range
About 60 species, chiefly in the tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, occurring as casual weeds in cooler temperate regions.
Notes
A. retroflexus L. was recorded from Somalia in Cuf. Enum.: 59 (1953) on the basis of Macaluso Mo. n. 13 (PAL, not seen). The record is doubtful and the species is omitted here. A. oleraceus L. was also recorded in Cuf. Enum: 59 (1953). This was certainly on the basis of the record given by Hutch. & Bruce in Kew Bull. 1941: 92 (1941). The specimen, Gillett 4919 a (FT) is a mixture of A. sparganiocephalus and A. graecizans subsp. silvestris.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 L. [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1753)—Aellen in Hegi, Ill. Fl. Mitteleur. 3,2: 465–516 (1959); Townsend in Publ. Cairo Univ. Herb. 7 & 8: 63–66 (1977).
Information
Annual or more rarely perennial herbs, glabrous or furnished with short and gland-like or multicellular hairs. Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, entire or sinuate. Inflorescence basically cymose, bracteate, formed of dense to lax axillary clusters or the upper clusters leafless and ± approximate to form a dense or lax “spike” or panicle. Flowers dioecious (not in Somalia) or monoecious. Tepals (2–)3–5, free or almost so, those of the female flowers somewhat accrescent in fruit. Stamens usually isomerous with the tepals, free. Ovary 1-ovulate. Stigmas 2–3. Fruit a dry, indehiscent, irregularly rupturing or circumscissile capsule. Seed usually compressed, black and shining.
Range
About 60 species, chiefly in the tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, occurring as casual weeds in cooler temperate regions.
Notes
A. retroflexus L. was recorded from Somalia in Cuf. Enum.: 59 (1953) on the basis of Macaluso Mo. n. 13 (PAL, not seen). The record is doubtful and the species is omitted here. A. oleraceus L. was also recorded in Cuf. Enum: 59 (1953). This was certainly on the basis of the record given by Hutch. & Bruce in Kew Bull. 1941: 92 (1941). The specimen, Gillett 4919 a (FT) is a mixture of A. sparganiocephalus and A. graecizans subsp. silvestris.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 L. [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1753)—Aellen in Hegi, Ill. Fl. Mitteleur. 3,2: 465–516 (1959); Townsend in Publ. Cairo Univ. Herb. 7 & 8: 63–66 (1977).
Information
Annual or more rarely perennial herbs, glabrous or furnished with short and gland-like or multicellular hairs. Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, entire or sinuate. Inflorescence basically cymose, bracteate, formed of dense to lax axillary clusters or the upper clusters leafless and ± approximate to form a dense or lax “spike” or panicle. Flowers dioecious (not in Somalia) or monoecious. Tepals (2–)3–5, free or almost so, those of the female flowers somewhat accrescent in fruit. Stamens usually isomerous with the tepals, free. Ovary 1-ovulate. Stigmas 2–3. Fruit a dry, indehiscent, irregularly rupturing or circumscissile capsule. Seed usually compressed, black and shining.
Range
About 60 species, chiefly in the tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, occurring as casual weeds in cooler temperate regions.
Notes
A. retroflexus L. was recorded from Somalia in Cuf. Enum.: 59 (1953) on the basis of Macaluso Mo. n. 13 (PAL, not seen). The record is doubtful and the species is omitted here. A. oleraceus L. was also recorded in Cuf. Enum: 59 (1953). This was certainly on the basis of the record given by Hutch. & Bruce in Kew Bull. 1941: 92 (1941). The specimen, Gillett 4919 a (FT) is a mixture of A. sparganiocephalus and A. graecizans subsp. silvestris.
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