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Family: Amaranthaceae
Amaranthus macrocarpus

Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 5:216 (1870) var. macrocarpus.

Synonymy: Amaranthus macrocarpus

Common name: Dwarf amaranth, Boggabri weed.

Description:
Glabrous erect annuals often less than 10 cm high; leaves narrow-ovate to oblong, mucronate, 1-4 cm long (incl. petiole of 2-25 mm).

Flowers in axillary globular clusters; bracts and bracteoles elliptic, greenish; perianth-segments usually 3, oblanceolate, with scarious margins, mucronate, 2.5-5 mm long in fruit, longer than the bracts and bracteoles; styles 2 or 3.

Fruit more or less wrinkled, oblong, much longer than the perianth, indehiscent, very dark when mature.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 283.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, EA, MU.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Aug. — Oct. (2 records).


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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: The pale-fruited var. pallidus Benth., Fl. Aust. 5:216 (1870), has been recorded close to, but not yet within, S.Aust. on the east.

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