Achyranthes aspera L.

AMARANTHACEAE
7464 ACHYRANTHES ASPERA L. yap. PUBESCENS
<Moq.) C. C. Townsend
Coll; Richard Spellenberg
July 22, 1983
YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC, Ibb Governate, 1.5 mi. W
of Ibb near Ibb Secondary Agricultural
Institute -farm, elev. ca. 2000 m, in area
once of Acacia, Cordia, Ficus, arborescent
Euphorbia, no«/ mostly terraced with sorghum,
grazed field edges, mountainous.
Against wall o-f soccer field, along road;
bushy, to 2m tall, as wide. Leaves dark,
the margins plane, veins prominent. <See also
Achyranthes 7463, which was about 100 m away)
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