MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH238 : Amaranthus polygonoides L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 434 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In river beds and fields | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Amaranthaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | tropical amaranth, Mati Khutura, Kudra-sak, Kudra sak, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Amaranthus polygonoides L., Pl. Jamaic. Pug. 27 1759. (Syn: Albersia polygonoides Kunth Amaranthus berlandieri (Moq.) Uline & W.L.Bray Amaranthus taishanensis F.Z.Li & C.K.Ni Amaranthus verticillatus Pav. ex Moq. [Invalid] Amblogyna polygonoides (L.) Raf. Euxolus polygonoides Nakai Glomeraria polygonoides (L.) Cav. Roemeria polygonoides (L.) Moench Sarratia polygonoides Moq. (Unresolved)) |
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| Description : | Plants annual, glabrescent proximally, pubescent distally, becoming glabrous at maturity. Stems erect-ascending to pro-strate, branched mostly at base and in proximal 1/2, 0.1-0.5 m. Leaves: petiole ± equaling blade; blade ovate, obovate-rhombic to narrowly ovate, sometimes lanceolate, 1.5-3(-4) × 0.5-1.5(-2) cm, base cuneate, margins entire to undulate-erose, apex rounded, obtuse, or emarginate, mucronate. Inflorescences axillary, congested clusters. Bracts of pistillate flowers lanceolate or linear, 1-1.5 mm, 1/2 as long as tepals. Pistillate flowers: tepals 5, connate in proximal 1/3 (entirely distinct in all other species), with 3 prominent veins abaxially, spatulate or somewhat clawed, equal or subequal, 2-3 mm, apex rounded or retuse, mucronate; style branches somewhat spreading; stigmas 3. Staminate flowers intermixed with pistillate; tepals (4-)5; stamens 2-3. Utricles cylindric or narrowly turbinate, 2-2.5 mm, ± equaling tepals, smooth proximally or roughened toward tips, indehiscent or tardily dehiscent. Seeds dark reddish brown to black, lenticular, 0.8-1 mm diam., shiny. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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