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This species is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & S. Africa, S. Arabian Peninsula.

[FZ]

Amaranthaceae, C. C. Townsend. Flora Zambesiaca 9:1. 1988

Habit
Annual herb, erect, simple or branching from near the base upwards, (8) 30–120 (180) cm.
Stem
Stem and branches green to reddish, sulcate or striate, glabrous or with short, few-celled hairs especially about the nodes.
Leaves
Leaves narrowly lanceolate to broadly ovate, occasionally (mostly in S. Africa) with a broad, obtuse lateral lobe on each side near the base, acute to acuminate, glabrous or with short, few-celled hairs on the inferior surface about the base; lamina of main stem leaves (1) 2–8.5 (10) × (0.4) 1–4 (5) cm., subcordate to truncate or attenuate below, the lower margins often scabrid, more or less decurrent along the slender, up to more or less 5 cm. long petiole; superior and branch leaves smaller and often narrower, more shortly petiolate; all leaves often fallen by the fruiting stage.
Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary and terminal, simple or branched spike-like thyrses more or less 6.5–35 cm. long, formed of distant or (at least above) approximate, few-to many-flowered lax or congested and subglobose, white or pinkish clusters 2–20 (30) mm. in diam., in well-grown individuals the superior leaves much reduced so that a terminal panicle is formed; inflorescence axis glabrous or furnished with multicellular hairs.
Bracts
Bracts and bracteoles ovate to ovate-elliptic, c. 1.25–2 mm. long, scarious with a darker nerve, margins minutely (or more coarsely at the base) erose-denticulate, glabrous.
Tepal
Tepals ovate-elliptic, 1.75–2.75 mm. long, shortly mucronate with excurrent midrib, glabrous, scarious with a narrow less translucent band along the midrib, margins minutely denticulate at least above.
Androecium
Free portion of filaments subequalling the sheath, sinuses rounded with no intermediate teeth; anthers reddish.
Stigma
Stigmas 2–3, longer than the very short style; ovary 6–8-ovulate.
Fruits
Capsule ovoid, 1.75–2.25 mm. long, included or a little exserted, rounded and not thickened at the apex.
Seeds
Seeds c. 0.75 mm. in diam., compressed, black, shining, with a rather fine reticulate pattern, the areolae only slightly convex.

[FWTA]

Amaranthaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:1. 1954

Habit
Laxly erect annual herb, decumbent below, 6–24 in. high, or straggling up a support to about 4 ft.
Flowers
Flowers white with pink stamens
Ecology
A frequent weed in waste places in savannah and forest regions.

[FTEA]

Amaranthaceae, C.C. Townsend. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1985

Habit
Annual herb, erect, simple or branching from near the base upwards, (8–)30–120(–180) cm.
Stem
Stem and branches green to reddish, sulcate or striate, glabrous or with subscabrid, short, few-celled hairs especially about the nodes.
Leaves
Leaves narrowly lanceolate to broadly ovate, acute to acuminate, glabrous or with short few-celled hairs on the lower surface about the base; lamina of the leaves from main stem (10–)20–85(–100) × (4–)10–40(–50) mm., subcordate to truncate or attenuate below, the lower margins often scabrid, ± decurrent along the slender, up to ± 5 cm. petiole; upper and branch leaves smaller and often narrower, more shortly stalked; all leaves often deciduous by the time of fruiting.
Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary and terminal, simple or branched spike-like condensed thyrses ± 6.5–35 cm. long, formed of distant or (at least above) approximate few-many-flowered lax or congested and subglobose white or pinkish clusters 2–20(–30) mm. in diameter, in well-grown individuals the upper leaves much reduced so that a terminal panicle is formed; inflorescence-axis glabrous or sparingly furnished with multicellular hairs.
Bracts
Bracts and bracteoles ovate to oval-elliptic, ± 1.25–2 mm., scarious with a single nerve, margins minutely (often more coarsely at the base) erose-denticulate, glabrous.
Perianth
Perianth segments oval-elliptic, 1.75–2.75 mm., shortly mucronate with the percurrent single nerve, glabrous, scarious with a narrow less translucent vitta along the nerve, margins minutely denticulate, at least above.
Stamens
Free portion of filaments subequalling the sheath, sinuses rounded with no intermediate teeth; anthers red.
Stigma
Stigmas 2–3, longer than the very short style.
Ovary
Ovary 6–8-ovulate.
Fruits
Capsule ovoid, 1.75–2.25 mm., included or a little exserted, rounded and not thickened at the apex.
Seeds
Seeds ± 0.75 mm., compressed, black, shining, with a rather fine reticulate pattern, the areolae being only very slightly convex.
Habitat
Most frequently as a weed of abandoned or currently cultivated arable land, also in forest clearings, along woodland paths and roadsides, in short grassland or on damp ground by rivers; 1–1500 m.
Distribution
K2 K4 K5 K7 T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 U1 U2 practically throughout tropical Africarecently recorded as naturalised in Florida

[FSOM]

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Habit
Erect annual herb, simple or branched, (80–)30–120(–180) cm
Indumentum
Stem, branches and inflorescence axis glabrous or with short multicellular hairs mostly at the nodes
Leaves
Leaves broadly ovate to narrowly lanceolate, acute or acuminate, main stem-leaves 1–10 x 0.4–5 cm, glabrous or with scattered short few-celled glands on the lower surface towards the base
Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary and terminal, white to pinkish, thyrsoid, simple or branched, dense or with the cymes distant, 6.5–35 cm long
Tepal
Tepals elliptic-ovate, 1.7–2.75 mm, hyaline with a less pellucid central vitta, midrib shortly excurrent, the margins ± erose-denticulate
Ovary
Ovary 6–10-ovulate, the stigmas much longer than the very short style
Fruits
Capsule ovoid, obtuse, not incrassate at the apex, 1.75–2.25 mm.
Distribution
S3 widespread in tropical Africa, also in Namibia, S Africa, Madagascar, Arabia and Madeira, naturalised elsewhere.
Ecology
Altitude range 90 m.

[FWTA]

Amaranthaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:1. 1954

Habit
A straggling herb, climbing in low forest-regrowth, to 10 ft. high
Flowers
Flowers white
Ecology
Rare in savannah.

Native to:

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Oman, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Florida

Celosia trigyna L. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Jun 1, 2008 Festo, L. [2397], Kenya K000438609
May 1, 2001 Etuge, M. [1553], Cameroon K000051098
May 1, 1979 Lowe J. [3811], Cameroon K000025533
Jan 1, 1952 Baldwin, J.T. Jr. [10025], Liberia K000211386
Morton, J.K. [7045], Cameroon K000025540
Maitland, T.D. [38], Cameroon K000025534
Maitland, T.D. [211], Cameroon K000025535
Maitland, T.D. [211], Cameroon K000025536
Maitland, T.D. [211], Cameroon K000025537
Hutchinson, J. [96], Cameroon K000025539
Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. [6995], Cameroon K000025530
Bos, J.J. [2670], Liberia K000211385
Johnston H. H. [0s.n.32], Cameroon K000025528 Unknown type material
Dunlap [172], Cameroon K000025538
Vebrun, J. [6977], Congo, DRC K001089639 syntype
Ekema, N. [437], Cameroon K000518866
Chuml, H. [546], Cameroon K000025529
Hambler, D. J. [229], Cameroon K000025541

First published in Mant. Pl. 2: 212 (1771)

Accepted by

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  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Catarino, L., Martins, E.S., Diniz, M.A. & Pinto-Basto, M.F. (2006). Check-list da flora vascular do parque natural das Lagos de Cufada (Guiné-Bissau) Garcia de Orta, Série de Botânica 17: 97-141.
  • Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
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  • Wood, J.R.I. (1997). A handbook of the Yemen Flora: 1-434. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Thulin, M. (ed.) (1993). Flora of Somalia 1: 1-493. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Barry, J. P. & Celles, J.S. (1991). Flore de Mauritanie 1: 1-359. Centre Regional de Documentation Pedagogique, Nice.
  • Lebrun, J.p., Toutain, B., Gaston, A. & Boudet, G. (1991). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Burkina Faso: 1-341. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
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Literature

Flora of West Tropical Africa

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Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Mosti, S., Raffaelli, M. & Tardelli, M. (2012). Contributions to the flora of central-southern Dhofar (Sultanate of Oman) Webbia; Raccolta de Scritti Botanici 67: 65-91.
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2003). Flora of North America North of Mexico 4: 1-559. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Collenette, S. (1999). Wildflowers of Saudi Arabia: 1-799. National commission for wildlife conservation and development (NCWCD), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • Wood, J.R.I. (1997). A handbook of the Yemen Flora: 1-434. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Thulin, M. (ed.) (1993). Flora of Somalia 1: 1-493. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Lebrun, J.p., Toutain, B., Gaston, A. & Boudet, G. (1991). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Burkina Faso: 1-341. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
  • Boulvert, Y. (1977). Catalogue de la Flore de Centrafrique 1: 1-114. ORSTROM, Bangui.

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. C. Townsend [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

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