Showing posts with label Amaranthaceae. Show all posts
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Monday, 9 February 2015

Plant Family Amaranthaceae


Amaranthaceae DescriptionDistribution
 A large and almost exclusively tropical family of some 65 genera and over 1000 species, including many cosmopolitan “weeds” and a large number of xerophytic plants.
Description
Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs, rarely scandent. Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, exstipulate, entire or almost so. Inflorescence a dense head, loose or spike-like thyrse, spike, raceme or panicle, basically cy