Class: | Magnoliopsida |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Amaranthaceae |
Genus: | Amaranthus |
Editor | Bektemir Osmonali |
Scientific name: | Amaranthus albus L. |
Name acc. to: | Bektemir |
Herbar: | list records |
Synonym: | Amaranthus gracilentus H. W. Kung. (acc. to Flora of China) |
Description: | Stem erect or ascending, greenish white, 30-50 cm tall, branched from base, glabrous or strigose. Petiole 3-5 mm, glabrous; leaf blade obovate or spatulate, 0.5-2 cm, glabrous, base narrowing to petiole, margin slightly undulate, apex obtuse or notched, with a mucro. Stamens longer than perianth; bracts conspicuously longer than perianth. |
Link to Flora of China: | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200006978 |
Habitat: | On garbage around houses |