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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Celosia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 205. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 96. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Cockscomb
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Amaranthaceae;Celosia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Amaranthaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Celosia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek keleos, burning, alluding to color and/or appearance of the inflorescence of C. cristata
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 406
|treatment_page=page 407
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or subshrubs, annual or perennial. <b>Stems</b> erect or clambering-straggling. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, petiolate; blade mostly lanceolate, ovate, or deltate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and often axillary spikes or panicles, often fasciated in cultivated forms, many-flowered. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; tepals 3–5, distinct, membranous or scarious, usually glabrous; filaments connate basally into cups; anthers 4-locular; pseudostaminodes absent; ovules 3–many; style persistent, 0.2–4 mm; stigmas 2–3, capitate or subulate. <b>Utricles</b> ovoid, membranaceous, dehiscence centrally circumscissile. <b>Seeds</b> (2–)3–many, black, flattened. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Primarily tropical;subtropical Americas;Asia;and Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 65 (5 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=grant1961a
|text=Grant, W. F. 1961. Speciation and basic chromosome number in the genus Celosia. Canad. J. Bot. 39: 45–50.
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|id=grant1962a
|text=Grant, W. F. 1962. Speciation and nomenclature in the genus Celosia. Canad. J. Bot. 40: 1355–1363.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Styles 3-4 mm; inflorescences dense, cylindric, 13-20 mm diam. spikes, or fasciated, crested or plumose
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Styles 0.2-1 mm; inflorescences lax spikes or panicles, units less than 10 mm diam
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Inflorescences cylindric or ovoid spikes; tepals silvery white or pinkish
|[[Celosia argentea|Celosia argentea]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Inflorescences fasciated, crested, or plumose; tepals pink, red, yellow, purple, or white
|[[Celosia cristata|Celosia cristata]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Plants annual herbs; tepals silvery, whitish, or tannish, 1-veined, 2-3 mm
|[[Celosia trigyna|Celosia trigyna]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Plants perennial herbs, subshrubs, or shrubs; tepals green, greenish white, pinkish green, or white with reddish base, drying tan, striate, 3.5-6(-7) mm
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Leaf blades deltate to triangular-lanceolate, not lobed; stigmas 3.
|[[Celosia nitida|Celosia nitida]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Leaf blades moderately hastate, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate; stigmas 2.
|[[Celosia palmeri|Celosia palmeri]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Celosia
|author=Kenneth R. Robertson
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Amaranthaceae
|distribution=Primarily tropical;subtropical Americas;Asia;and Africa.
|reference=grant1961a;grant1962a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_800.xml
|genus=Celosia
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