Citation: Hieron., Pl. diaph. Fl. Argent. 227 (1882).

Synonymy: Euxolus muricatus Moq. in A. DC., Prod. 13, 2:276 (1849).

Common name: Rough-fruited amaranth.

Description:
Glabrous perennial with slender prostrate or ascending branching stems; leaves linear to broadly lanceolate, obtuse, often clustered, tapering into the petiole, 1-9 cm long (incl. petiole), 2-6 mm broad.

Flowers subsessile, in dense 4-12-flowered clusters forming a panicle of dense or interrupted spikes, the terminal spike 4-12 cm long and 5-6 mm broad; bracts and bracteoles broad, about half as long as the perianth; perianth-segments 5, erect, oblong or narrow-spathulate, mucronate, 1-nerved, c. 2 mm long; styles 3; stamens usually 3.

Fruit very little longer than the perianth, indehiscent, prominently tuberculate; seed black, shining, c. 1.5 mm across.

	Amaranthus muricatus
Image source: fig 179c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: GT, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL.   N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to South America. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Nov. — May.

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

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