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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Amaranthus scleropoides
|accepted_authority=Uline & W. L. Bray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Gaz.
|place=19: 316. 1894
|year=1894
}}
|common_names=Bonebract amaranth;bonebract pigweed
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Amaranthus blitoides var. scleropoides
|authority=(Uline & W. L. Bray) Thellung
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Amaranthaceae;Amaranthus;Amaranthus subg. Albersia;Amaranthus scleropoides
|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 scleropoides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 410, 413, 432
|treatment_page=page 433
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> ascending to prostrate, erect when young, or main stems ± erect, branched proximally, 0.1–0.6 m. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole equaling or 1/2 as long as blade; blade elliptic, oblanceolate to lanceolate, (0.5–)1–3(–3.5) × 0.3–2 cm, base tapering, margins entire, plane to slightly undulate, apex broadly rounded or emarginate. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary clusters borne from base to top, axes thickened and inflated, becoming indurate at maturity (only in <i>A. scleropoides</i> and <i>A. crassipes</i>). <b>Bracts</b> of pistillate flowers keeled (only <i>A. scleropoides</i> and <i>A. crassipes</i> have keeled bracts), ovate-triangular, minute. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: tepals 5, narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, with expanded blade, equal or subequal, (1.2–)1.5–2.5 mm, apex acute to apiculate; claws indurate at maturity; style branches spreading; stigmas 2–3. <b>Staminate</b> flowers intermixed with pistillate; tepals 5, membranaceous; stamens 3. <b>Utricles</b> orbicular to compressed-obovoid, 1.1–1.5 mm, shorter than tepals, smooth to tuberculate in distal 1/2, dehiscence regularly circumscissile. <b>Seeds</b> dark brownish black to black, compressed-ovoid to broadly lenticular, 0.9–1.1 mm diam., shiny.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Seasonally wet, disturbed habitats
|elevation=0-1300 m
|distribution=Okla.;Tex.;Mexico (Tamaulipas).
|discussion=<p>A hybrid between <i>Amaranthus crassipes</i> and <i>A. scleropoides</i> was recently described as A. ×texensis Henrickson and reported from southeastern Texas (J. Henrickson 1999).</p>
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name=Amaranthus scleropoides
|authority=Uline & W. L. Bray
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Amaranthus blitoides var. scleropoides
|basionyms=
|family=Amaranthaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Seasonally wet, disturbed habitats
|elevation=0-1300 m
|distribution=Okla.;Tex.;Mexico (Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Gaz.
|publication year=1894
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_847.xml
|genus=Amaranthus
|subgenus=Amaranthus subg. Albersia
|species=Amaranthus scleropoides
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