familyAmaranthaceae
genusAmaranthus
subgenusAmaranthus subg. Acnida
sectionAmaranthus sect. Saueranthus
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Amaranthus sect. Saueranthus
Ann. Bot. Fenn. 33: 277. 1996.
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 418.
Plants annual, glabrous, glabrescent, or pubescent. Bracts not enfolding flower, not leaflike, narrowly lanceolate to subulate-linear, margins entire, plane or indistinctly undulate at margins. Pistillate flowers: tepals (4–) 5, spatulate or obovate-elliptic, sometimes only outer tepals distinctly spatulate. Utricles dehiscence regularly circumscissile (indehiscent only in Amaranthus greggii).
Distribution
sw North America
Discussion
Species 4 (4 in the flora).
Selected References
None.
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dehiscence +
mucronulate;emarginate;obtuse;emarginate;obtuse;acute +
not leaflike +
persistent +
absent +
compound +
arranged +
sw North America +
peripheral +
annular +
alternating +
distinct +
pistillate +
not keeled +
not enfolding +
unisexual +
cluster +
arranged +
petiolate +
alternate +
undulate-erose +
larger +
superior +
spicate +
well-developed +
surrounding +
absent +
rudimentary +
modified +
absent +
Ann. Bot. Fenn. +
1996 +
reticulate +
puncticulate +
shiny +
well-developed +
absent +
3;5 +
not fleshy +
2;3 +
slender +
absent +
Amaranthus sect. Saueranthus +
Amaranthus subg. Acnida +
section +
distinct +
outer +
absent +
subequal +
equal +
simple +
circumscissile +
glabrous +
membranaceous +
thin +
annual +
dioecious +