Amaranthus crassipes Schltdl.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Amaranthaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Glabrous; stems prostrate or somewhat ascending, rather fleshy, 2-6 dm. long. Petioles slender, 0.5-4 cm. long; leaves ovate to oblong or obovate, 0.5- 3.5 cm. long, prominently whitish-veined, rounded and emarginate at the apex, narrowed at the base; flowers monoecious, in dense short-peduncled axillary clusters, the peduncles thickened; bracts very small, ovate, acutish; sepals of the pistillate flowers 4 or 5, spatulate, scarious, about 1.5 mm. long, obtuse or emarginate; style-branches 2; utricle obovoid, compressed, coriaceous, finely tuberculate, indehiscent; seed dark brown or black, smooth, about 1 mm. broad.
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Distribution
Waste places, Xew Providence. Watling's and South Caicos : Florida; West Indies ; northern South America. Thick-stalked Amaranth.
Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|