Amaranthaceae

Amaranthus chlorostachys

Amaranthus L. Amaranthus chlorostachys WILLD. Ömür: Tek yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Habitat: çorak yerler Minimum yükseklik: 0 Maksimum yükseklik: 0 Endemik: - Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: Trakya, KB. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Tropik ve K. Amerika Bulunduğu kareler: A2 A7 B1

A. chlorostachys Willd., Hist. Amaranth. 34, t. 10 f. 19 (1790). Ic: Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ. 24: t. 296 (1909).   Green or reddish annual, 30-100 cm, downy-hairy above (though not so densely as A. retroflexus). Leaves 3-8 x 2-6 cm, rhomboid-ovate, long-petiolate. Inflorescence a leafless, bright green panicle, terminal pseudo-spikes usually slender and elongate, often somewhat loose. Longer bracteoles 2-6 mm, with sharp-pointed apices. Perianth segments 5, ± elongate-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, finely acuminate, sometimes mucronulate, shorter than or as long as the fruit. Fruit lip wrinkled. Fl. 5-7. Waste places, s.l.   A2(E) Istanbul: Kağithane, 21 x 1902, Azn.l   Tropical and N. America, recently spreading all over the world. A. caudatus L., Sp. PI. 990 (1753), with long, pendulous, usually red pseudo-spikes and 5 rhom-boid-obovate to broadly spathulate perianth segments; and A. paniculatus L., Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1406 (1762) with erect, red or yellow inflorescences and 5 lanceolate-acuminate perianth segments, are two species related to A. chlorostachys which are sometimes cultivated in gardens, and are occasionally found growing on rubbish tips, e.g.: A. caudatus A2(E) Istanbul: Büyükdere, 11 viii 1895, Azn.l A. paniculatus A2(E) Istanbul: Pera, 26 ix 1887, Azn.l A7 Trabzon: above Çaykara, D. 32118! Bl Izmir: Izmir, Katz!