Comprehensive Description
(
Anglèis
)
fornì da North American Flora
Amaranthus crispus (Lesp. & Th£v.) A. Br. ; A. Gray, Marx
ed. 6. 428. 1890.
Euxolus crispus I^esp. & Thev. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 6: 656. 1859. Albersia crispa Aschers.; Hausskn. Ber. Deuts. Bot. Ges. 8: 121. 1890. Amaranthus cristulatus Speg. Com. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires l 10 : 344. 1901.
Stems slender,. pubescent, much branched, spreading, forming mats 2-8 dm. in diameter; petioles stout, 2-5 mm. long; leaf -blades rhombic-ovate to oblong, 6-25 mm. long, acutish at the apex, broadly cuneate at the base, thick, conspicuously crispate, puberulent beneath, prominently nerved; flowers monoecious, in small axillary clusters shorter than the petioles; bracts lanceolate to oblong, cuspidate, shorter than the sepals; sepals of the staminate flowers oblong, acute, those of the pistillate flowers oblong to oblanceolate, obtuse, cuspidate, scarious, 1.5 mm. long; stamens 5; style-branches 3; utricle biturbinate, thinwalled, rugose, indehiscent; seed obovate, 0.8 mm. long, black, shining. Type locality: Bessan, France.
Distribution: Argentina; adventive in waste ground in New York, North Carolina, and Louisiana; also in Europe.
- sitassion bibliogràfica
- Paul Carpenter Standley. 1917. (CHENOPODIALES); AMARANTHACEAE. North American flora. vol 21(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
