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|accepted_name=Amaranthus viscidulus
|accepted_authority=Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pittonia
|place=3: 344. 1898
|year=1898
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Amaranthaceae;Amaranthus;Amaranthus subg. Amaranthus;Amaranthus viscidulus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Amaranthaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Amaranthus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Amaranthus subg. Amaranthus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Amaranthus viscidulus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 415, 423
|treatment_page=page 422
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely viscid-pubescent (especially distal parts), becoming glabrescent proximally. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, often whitish or tinged with red, usually branched distally, sometimes proximally, to nearly simple, 0.2–1 m. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole usually longer than or ± equaling blade; blade rhombic-ovate, ovate, obovate, or elliptic, 1–4.5 × 0.5–2.5 cm, usually somewhat fleshy, base cuneate, margins entire, apex obtuse to slightly emarginate, with terminal mucro. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, usually unbranched, stout spikes and axillary clusters, erect, usually greenish or reddish, leafless at least distally. <b>Bracts</b> lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 5–10 mm, longer than tepals, apex spinescent. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: tepals 5, elongate, not clawed, unequal or subequal, 1.5–2.5 mm, apex obtuse to subacute; style branches elongated, shorter than body of fruit; stigmas 3. <b>Staminate</b> flowers few at tips of inflorescences; tepals 5; stamens 3–5. <b>Utricles</b> subglobose to broadly obovoid, 1.3–2.5 mm, equal or subequal to tepals, shorter than style branches, smooth or slightly rugose, dehiscence regularly circumscissile. <b>Seeds</b> black, lenticular to subglobose-lenticular, 1–1.2 mm diam., smooth, shiny.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Open dry slopes, other naturally disturbed habitats
|elevation=1500-2500 m
|distribution=N.Mex.
|discussion=<p><i>Amaranthus viscidulus</i> is known only from scattered localities in central and southern New Mexico; it probably also occurs in adjacent territories of Mexico. The name A. bracteosus Uline & W. L. Bray has been misapplied to this species by some authors.</p>
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name=Amaranthus viscidulus
|author=
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Amaranthaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Open dry slopes, other naturally disturbed habitats
|elevation=1500-2500 m
|distribution=N.Mex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Pittonia
|publication year=1898
|special status=
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|genus=Amaranthus
|subgenus=Amaranthus subg. Amaranthus
|species=Amaranthus viscidulus
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