Amaranthus graecizans

purple amaranth

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderCaryophyllales
5. FamilyAmaranthaceae

Native toAfghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Assam, Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Benin, Bulgaria, Burkina, Cameroon

Observations5,679

Observations recorded10,723

Plants annual, pubescent in distal parts or becoming glabrescent at maturity. Stems erect to ascending or decumbent, branched at or distal to base, 0.1-0.9 m. Leaves: petiole variable in length; blade lanceolate to nearly linear or rhombic-ovate to elliptic-ovate, (1.5-)2-4(-5) × 1-3 cm, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margins entire, plane, rarely indistinctly undulate, apex subacute to obtuse or emarginate, mucronulate. Inflorescences axillary glomerules, green. Bracts lanceolate, subspinescent, 1.5-2 mm, shorter or slightly longer than tepals. Pistillate flowers: tepals 3, erect, elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic, equal or subequal, 1.5-2 mm, apex short-acuminate; style branches slightly spreading; stigmas (2-)3. Staminate flowers intermixed with pistillate; tepals 3, equal or subequal; stamens 3. Utricles subglobose to broadly elliptic, 2-2.5 mm, slightly rugose, dehiscence regularly circumscissile, rarely irregularly dehiscent. Seeds black, lenticular, 1-1.3(-1.6) mm diam., smooth or indistinctly punctate.

via GBIF · Kew POWO

🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

1,691

With media

1,368

Family

Amaranthaceae

Collections

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, INECOL, CIIDIR-IPN, ARIZ, UTEP, DAV

Recorded in

Kenya, Mexico, United States, Niger