Submission of Amaranthus graecizans

[Lalithamba Avadhanam]

Plant name: Amaranthus graecizans L., Sp. Pl. 990. 1753.

Ver.names: Tumble weed, pig weed (Eng.)

Family: Amaranthaceae

Description: 

Annual herb, prostrate, branched from the base; plants glabrous. Leaves spiral; variable, lamina rhomboid-ovate or linear-lanceolate or linear, 2-4 × 0.5-2 cm, acute, cuneate at the base, glaucous green.  Flowers all in axillary cymose clusters, male and female intermixed, males in the upper whorls. Perianth segments 3, 2-3mm. Stamens 3 in males. Stigmas 3, slender, flexuose in females. Capsule subglobose 2mm, usually strongly wrinkled. Seeds shining, compressed, black, faintly reticulate.

Habitat & location: Occasional in the rock crevices in hilly areas. 

Use: The leaves are used as leafy vegetable. 

Regards

A.Lalithamba

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Lalithamba ji, for a new addition to efi.

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[Promila Chaturvedi]

Is it edible. 

Promila

[J.M. Garg]

Can it be Amaranthus polygonoides as per iNaturalist, GBIF, Florida Plants ?

Looks different from Amaranthus graecizans as per POWO and GBIF.

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[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Lalithamba ji

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On Sat, 27 Mar, 2021, 7:25 pm Lalithamba Avadhanam, <alali...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes it is Amaranthus polygonoides ;I have corrected in my collection long back,  P.graecizans is not our plant. thank you all 

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