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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Amaranthus thunbergii
|accepted_authority=Moquin-Tandon in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|place=13(2): 262. 1849
|year=1849
}}
|common_names=Thunberg’s amaranth
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Amaranthaceae;Amaranthus;Amaranthus subg. Albersia;Amaranthus thunbergii
|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. Albersia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Amaranthus thunbergii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 413
|treatment_page=page 433
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, pubescent when young, becoming glabrescent at maturity. <b>Stems</b> decumbent or erect, branched proximally, 0.7–1 m. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 1/2–11/2 times as long as blade; blade obovate or obovate-elliptic to oblanceolate, 1–2 × 0.5–1 cm, base cuneate to attenuate, margins entire, apex obtuse, rounded, or slightly emarginate, mucronate. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary clusters extending to near base. <b>Bracts</b> of pistillate flowers lanceolate, 2–4 mm, shorter than tepals. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: tepals 3, reflexed, ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, 3–5 mm, apex tapering and long-aristate; style branches spreading; stigmas 2. <b>Staminate</b> flowers intermixed with pistillate; tepals 3, equal; stamens 3. <b>Utricles</b> ellipsoid or ellipsoid-ovoid, 2 mm, shorter than tepals, mostly smooth (or slightly rugose distally), dehiscence regularly circumscissile. <b>Seeds</b> black, subglobose or lenticular, 1–1.4 mm diam., semishiny (or minutely punctulate and reticulate).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Uncommon, casual alien near wool-combing mills
|distribution=S.C.;native to Africa.
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name=Amaranthus thunbergii
|author=
|authority=Moquin-Tandon in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Amaranthaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Uncommon, casual alien near wool-combing mills
|distribution=S.C.;native to Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication year=1849
|special status=
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|genus=Amaranthus
|subgenus=Amaranthus subg. Albersia
|species=Amaranthus thunbergii
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