Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 414 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Native amaranth.

Description:
Erect to decumbent annuals with lightly pubescent often reddish branches, usually under 50 cm high; leaves ovate or elliptic, pungent-pointed, the blade 0.6-4 cm long, petiolate, sometimes reddish.

Flowers in axillary clusters and sometimes in long dense or interrupted terminal spikes, green to brown; bracts and bracteoles usually lanceolate or elliptic, subacute, 1-1.5 mm long; perianth-segments 5, narrow-spathulate, acute, mucronate, 1.5-2 mm long, erect, the centre dark but fading with age; styles 2 or 3.

Fruit wrinkled, ovoid to ellipsoid, usually a little shorter than the perianth, indehiscent or breaking irregularly; seeds black, loose within the pericarp, nearly 1.5 mm diam.

	Amaranthus interruptus
Image source: fig 178d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Williams (1980) Native plants of Queensland, p. 17.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, FR.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: throughout the year.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: There are sometimes difficulties in separating this species from A. mitchellii and the differences probably need investigation.

Author: Not yet available