Amaranthus hybridus L.
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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 - Stem usually slender, erect, 0.3-2.5 m. tall, often much-branched, villous above. Leaves long-petioled, 1.5 dm. long or less, ovate to lanceolate, usually acute; spikes linear-cylindric, 2-12 cm. long, axillary and forming dense terminal panicles, ascending, or somewhat spreading; bracts lanceolate to ovate, about twice as long as the 5 oblong acute or cuspidate sepals; stamens 5; style-branches 3; utricle scarcely wrinkled, eireumscissile; seed dark brown or black, shining, 1 mm. in diameter.
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Distribution
Waste places. Fortune Island. Anguilla Isles : United States : Bermuda ; Cuba ; Mexico. A. panlculatus as to Bahamian references. Slender Pigweed.
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