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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Gomphrena
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 224. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 105. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Amaranthaceae;Gomphrena
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Amaranthaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gomphrena]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin gromphaena, a type of amaranth
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 406
|treatment_page=page 451
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial. <b>Stems</b> ascending, decumbent, prostrate, or erect. <b>Leaves</b> opposite, sessile or petiolate; blade ovate to obovate, not fleshy, margins entire, long-pilose abaxially and sometimes adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and/or axillary, sessile, subglobose heads, often subtended by involucres of sessile leaves; bracts and bracteoles thin. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; tepals 5, connate proximally; stamens 5; filaments connate basally into tube; pseudostaminodes absent; ovule 1; style 1, 1.5–4 mm; stigmas 2(–3), subulate or filiform. <b>Utricles</b> included in tepals, stramineous, ovoid or oblong, somewhat compressed, membranous, usually indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 1, lenticular, subglobose, to ovoid, smooth.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropical;subtropical;and warm-temperate regions.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 100 (9 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=holzhammer1955a
|text=Holzhammer, E. 1955. Die amerikanischen Arten der Gattung Gomphrena Linné. I. Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 2: 85–114.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=holzhammer1956a
|text=Holzhammer, E. 1956. Die amerikanischen Arten der Gattung Gomphrena Linné. II. Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 2: 178–257.
}}
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Bractlets not cristate
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Bractlets cristate along keel
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Plants cespitose 3-15 cm; stems with 1-2 pairs of leaves
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Plants not cespitose, 4-60 cm; each stem bearing numerous leaves
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blades green, very sparsely villose, glabrate; blades of cauline leaves longer than broad
|[[Gomphrena viridis|Gomphrena viridis]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blades gray, densely villose; blades of cauline leaves as broad as long
|[[Gomphrena caespitosa|Gomphrena caespitosa]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Flower tubes glabrous; inflorescence heads not subtended by 2 leaves
|[[Gomphrena martiana|Gomphrena martiana]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Flower tubes lanose proximally; inflorescence heads subtended by 2 leaves
|[[Gomphrena sonorae|Gomphrena sonorae]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Roots fleshy, fusiform; plants perennial
|[[#key-0-6| > 6]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Roots fibrous; plants annual or sometimes perennial (G. serrata)
|[[#key-0-7| > 7]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Leaf blades 1.5-4 cm, apex rounded; perianth 4.5-4.7 mm
|[[Gomphrena nealleyi|Gomphrena nealleyi]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Leaf blades 3-10 cm, apex acute to acuminate; perianth ca. 5.3 mm
|[[Gomphrena haageana|Gomphrena haageana]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Inflorescence heads 20-28 mm diam
|[[Gomphrena globosa|Gomphrena globosa]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Inflorescence heads 8-16 mm diam
|[[#key-0-8| > 8]]
|-id=key-0-8
|8
|Bractlets with denticulate crests; inflorescence heads 9-13 mm diam., usually tinged with red or pink; stems usually decumbent
|[[Gomphrena serrata|Gomphrena serrata]]
|-id=key-0-8
|8
|Bractlets with laciniate crests; inflorescence heads 12-16 mm diam, yellowish white, rarely reddish; stems usually erect
|[[Gomphrena nitida|Gomphrena nitida]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Gomphrena
|author=Steven E. Clemants
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Amaranthaceae
|distribution=Tropical;subtropical;and warm-temperate regions.
|reference=holzhammer1955a;holzhammer1956a
|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_888.xml
|genus=Gomphrena
}}<!--

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