Amaranthus crassipes Schltdl.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Amaranthaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Prostrate herb, to 35 cm long, many-branched from a taprooted base; branches fleshy, light green. Leaf blades 0.9 -1.9 x 0.3-1.2 cm, ovate, elliptic, or obovate, chartaceous, glabrous, the apex rounded and notched, the base tapering into a more or less elongate petiole, the margins entire. Flowers produced in congested, nearly globose axillary cymes; bracts and bracteoles minute, triangular, Tepals 1.5 mm long, oblong to spatulate with expanded basem greenish, involute, with hyaline margins; stamens 3-5, the anthers oblong, filaments glabrous; ovary ellipsoid, the style short, the stigmas 2, recurved, as long as the ovary. Fruit indehiscent, slightly flattened, ellipsoid. Seeds 1.2 mm long, flattened-ovate, reddish brown and shiny.
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Distribution
In open moist to dry areas. Coral Bay (A3108), Lameshur (A2573). Also on St Croix St. Thomas, Tortola and Virgin Gorda; from southern United States to Peru, including the West Indies.
West Indies| South America| Peru South America| Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Virgin Gorda Virgin Islands South America| Saint Croix Virgin Islands of the United States South America|