Achyranthes
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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
Description - Decumbent or prostrate herbs. Leaves opposite, entire or nearly so. Flowers perfect, in sessile or peduneled, head-like, usually white or silvery spikes. Sepals 5, unequal. Stamens 5, the filaments partially united into a cupdike tube; staminodia surpassing the filaments and 2-eelled anthers, or shorter. Ovary 1 -celled; stigma capitate. Ovule solitary. Utricle flattened, indehiscent. Seeds lenticular, smooth. [Greek, straw-flower.] Forty species or more, mostly of tropical distribution. Type species: Achyranthes repens L.