Celosia trigyna
Mant. Pl. 2: 212. 1771.
Common names: Woolflower
Introduced
Herbs, annual. Stems erect or straggling, 0.5–1 m, glabrous. Leaves: petiole elongate, to 6 cm; blade unlobed, lanceolate or ovate, to 3–11 × 1–6 cm, base tapering, apex acuminate. Inflorescences interrupted, lax spikelike panicles, units less than 10 mm diam. Flowers: tepals silvery, whitish, or tannish, 1-veined, ovate, 2–3 mm, membranous, margins faintly erose, apex rounded-acute; style 0.2 mm; stigmas 3. Utricles 3–3.5 mm. Seeds 4–8, 0.7–1 mm diam., faintly reticulate. 2n = 18.
Phenology: Flowering winter.
Habitat: Edges of orange groves, wet woods
Elevation: 0-10 m
Distribution
Introduced; Fla., Africa
Discussion
According to R. P. Wunderlin (1979), Celosia trigyna is an occasional weed introduced from tropical Africa.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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dehiscence +
rounded-acute;acuminate +
tapering +
Woolflower +
peripheral +
alternating +
connate +
hypogynous +
bisexual +
cluster +
interrupted +
fasciated +
arranged +
true +
petiolate +
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superior +
3;many +
axillary +
spikelike +
surrounding +
elongate +
absent +
Mant. Pl. +
1771 +
reticulate +
black +
0.7mm;1mm +
flattened +
Introduced +
axillary +
2;5 +
glabrous +
persistent +
absent +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (?) +
Celosia trigyna +
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species +
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ovate +
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