Amaranthus australis
Content
- <<<Female flowers>Ovary>Stigma>Stigma number
- <<<Male flowers>Tepals>Shape>Length
- <<<Petiole>Blade>Shape>Dimensions
- <<Female flowers>Bracts>Bract number
- <<Female flowers>Ovary>Angle number
- <<Female flowers>Ovary>Shape
- <<Female flowers>Ovary>Stigma
- <<Habit>Stems>Growth form
- <<Habit>Stems>Hairs
- <<Habit>Stems>Shape
- <<Inflorescences>Bracts>Bract number
- <<Inflorescences>Bracts>Shape
- <<Inflorescences>Flowering top>Length
- <<Male flowers>Stamens>Stamen number
- <<Male flowers>Tepals>Shape
- <<Male flowers>Tepals>Vein number
- <<Petiole>Blade>Hairs
- <<Petiole>Blade>Margin type
- <<Petiole>Blade>Shape
- <<Utricles>Seeds>Colour
- <<Utricles>Seeds>Shape
- <Female flowers>Bracts
- <Female flowers>Length
- <Female flowers>Ovary
- <Female flowers>Tepals
- <Habit>Height
- <Habit>Stems
- <Inflorescences>Bracts
- <Inflorescences>Flowering top
- <Inflorescences>Position
- <Male flowers>Length
- <Male flowers>Stamens
- <Male flowers>Tepals
- <Petiole>Blade
- <Petiole>Length
- <Utricles>Angle number
- <Utricles>Length
- <Utricles>Seeds
- <Utricles>Shape
- Common Name
- Description
- Distribution
- Female flowers
- Habit
- Individuals Association
- Inflorescences
- Male flowers
- Petiole
- Utricles
<<Petiole>Blade>Shape
lanceolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, , long-acuminate at apex, acute to rounded at base19
19. 002-002-001
Common Name
Creole (French Guiana): epinard English (Suriname): klaroen, watra-kraroen, zwamp-klaroen
Description
Annual, dioecious herb, 1.0-2.5(-4.0) m; stems branched, erect or decumbent, glabrous, somewhat thickened and hollow at base. Petiole long, to 10 cm; blade lanceolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 6-30 x 1.5-14 cm, long-acuminate at apex, acute to rounded at base, undulate, glabrous. Inflorescence of large, terminal and axillary, lax panicles, sometimes massed as a flowering top to ca. 30 cm long, often drooping at apex; bracts 3, ovate, acute, persistent, shorter than tepals. Male flowers in narrow panicles 3-9 cm long; tepals ovate, 2.5-3 mm long, mucronate or acuminate, 1-veined; stamens 5. Female flowers in panicles 6-15 cm long; bracts of female flowers 3, rigid, resembling tepals; tepals absent; ovary ovoid, subglobose, 3- to 5-angled, stigmas 2-5. Utricle dehiscent or indehiscent, obovoid or turbinate, 1.5-2.5 mm long, 3- to 5-angled, as long as or shorter than bracts; seed brown, lenticular, lustrous, puncticulate.
Distribution
Coastal areas of Florida present, Greater Antilles present, Guianas present, Northern America, Southern America, Trinidad present
Coastal areas of Florida, the Greater Antilles, Mexico, Trinidad and northern South America; 15 collections studied, 6 from the Guianas: GU: 1; SU: 3; FG: 2.