Centemopsis

Annual or perennial herbs with entire, opposite leaves. Inflorescences terminal on stems and branches, sometimes bright red, bracteate; flowers solitary (in ours) or paired in axils of each bract. All flowers bisexual with 2 bracteoles. Modified sterile flowers 0. Perianth segments 5, shortly mucronate. Stamens 5, alternating with 5 pseudostaminodes. Ovary (in our species) glabrous below with a dense ring of hairs centrally, less hairy above. Fruit a capsule, rupturing irregularly.

Centemoposis is a genus of plants in the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae and is found in Africa distributed from Tropical Africa to South Africa.

The genus has 12 accepted species:

Centemopsis biflora (Schinz) Schinz Centemopsis conferta (Schinz) Suess. Centemopsis fastigiata (Suess.) C.C.Townsend Centemopsis filiformis (E.A.Bruce) C.C.Townsend Centemopsis glomerata (Lopr.) Schinz Centemopsis gracilenta (Hiern) Schinz Centemopsis graminea (Suess. & Overk.) C.C.Townsend Centemopsis kirkii (Hook.fil.) Schinz Centemopsis longipedunculata (Peter) C.C.Townsend Centemopsis micrantha Chiov. Centemopsis sordida C.C.Townsend Centemopsis trinervis Hauman