Family: Amaranthaceae
Amaranthus viridis
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. erin 2:1405 (1763). Green amaranth, kerb weed
Synonymy: A. gracilis Desf., Tabl. école bot. edn 1:43 (1804).
Common name: None
Description:
Stem erect, spreading or ascending, branching, often striped with purple; leaves pale-green, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, obtuse or notched at the summit, 3-9 cm long (incl. petiole), 2-6 cm broad, the white nerves prominent on the undersurface.
Flowers greenish, in dense slender axillary and terminal spikes sometimes interrupted towards the base, the upper ones forming a loose panicle, the terminal spike 4-12 cm long, c. 5 mm diam.; bracts and bracteoles narrow, 0.5-1 mm long; perianth-segments 3, linear-spathulate, 1-1.75 mm long and twice as long as the bracts and bracteoles; styles 3.
Fruit wrinkled, indehiscent, 1.75-2 mm long, scarcely exceeding the perianth.
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Image source: fig 180c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 284.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, SE. All mainland States. Native to America.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Jan. — May.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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