familyAmaranthaceae
genusAmaranthus
subgenusAmaranthus subg. Acnida
sectionAmaranthus sect. Saueranthus
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Ann. Bot. Fenn. 33: 277. 1996.
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 418.
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Plants annual, glabrous, glabrescent, or pubescent. Bracts not enfolding flower, not leaflike, narrowly lanceolate to subulate-linear, margins entire, plane or indistinctly undulate at margins. Pistillate flowers: tepals (4–)5, spatulate or obovate-elliptic, sometimes only outer tepals distinctly spatulate. Utricles dehiscence regularly circumscissile (indehiscent only in Amaranthus greggii).
Distribution
sw North America.
Discussion
Species 4 (4 in the flora).
Selected References
None.