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AMARANTHUS sparganiocephalus Thell. [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 sparganiocephalus Thell. [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1914). Fig. 75.
Information
Erect or decumbent annual, 7–60 cm. Stems usually rather stout, simple or branched below the middle, glabrous throughout or with rather long multicellular hairs about the inflorescence. Leaves long-petiolate with the petioles sometimes longer than the 1.2–4 x 0.6–3 cm, broadly ovate to oblong-elliptic blade, obtuse to broadly retuse, glabrous or with short hairs on the nerves of the lower surface towards the base. Flower clusters of compact, spherical, sessile axillary clusters to 1 cm in diam., male and female flowers intermixed. Tepals 3, 1–1.25 mm, the female oblong and obtuse, with a green central vitta ceasing below the apex. Stigmas 2, short and rigid. Fruiting heads rigidly stellate with the divergent capsules. Capsule 2.75–3.25 mm, circumscissile, the base conical and longitudinally sulcate, the lid subconical and sulcate below, junction of base and lid ± cristate-crenulate. Seeds ellipsoid, faintly reticulate.
Range
C2; S1, 2
Altitude range
40–155 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & Hemming 24289; Hemming & Deshmukh JESS 276; Kuchar 17549.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
Socotra
Arabia
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 sparganiocephalus Thell. [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1914). Fig. 75.
Information
Erect or decumbent annual, 7–60 cm. Stems usually rather stout, simple or branched below the middle, glabrous throughout or with rather long multicellular hairs about the inflorescence. Leaves long-petiolate with the petioles sometimes longer than the 1.2–4 x 0.6–3 cm, broadly ovate to oblong-elliptic blade, obtuse to broadly retuse, glabrous or with short hairs on the nerves of the lower surface towards the base. Flower clusters of compact, spherical, sessile axillary clusters to 1 cm in diam., male and female flowers intermixed. Tepals 3, 1–1.25 mm, the female oblong and obtuse, with a green central vitta ceasing below the apex. Stigmas 2, short and rigid. Fruiting heads rigidly stellate with the divergent capsules. Capsule 2.75–3.25 mm, circumscissile, the base conical and longitudinally sulcate, the lid subconical and sulcate below, junction of base and lid ± cristate-crenulate. Seeds ellipsoid, faintly reticulate.
Range
C2; S1, 2
Altitude range
40–155 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & Hemming 24289; Hemming & Deshmukh JESS 276; Kuchar 17549.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
Socotra
Arabia
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 sparganiocephalus Thell. [family AMARANTHACEAE], (1914). Fig. 75.
Information
Erect or decumbent annual, 7–60 cm. Stems usually rather stout, simple or branched below the middle, glabrous throughout or with rather long multicellular hairs about the inflorescence. Leaves long-petiolate with the petioles sometimes longer than the 1.2–4 x 0.6–3 cm, broadly ovate to oblong-elliptic blade, obtuse to broadly retuse, glabrous or with short hairs on the nerves of the lower surface towards the base. Flower clusters of compact, spherical, sessile axillary clusters to 1 cm in diam., male and female flowers intermixed. Tepals 3, 1–1.25 mm, the female oblong and obtuse, with a green central vitta ceasing below the apex. Stigmas 2, short and rigid. Fruiting heads rigidly stellate with the divergent capsules. Capsule 2.75–3.25 mm, circumscissile, the base conical and longitudinally sulcate, the lid subconical and sulcate below, junction of base and lid ± cristate-crenulate. Seeds ellipsoid, faintly reticulate.
Range
C2; S1, 2
Altitude range
40–155 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & Hemming 24289; Hemming & Deshmukh JESS 276; Kuchar 17549.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
Socotra
Arabia
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