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2328.000 Achyranthes
Description of the genus
Perennial herbs with entire, opposite leaves. Inflorescence a slender spike, terminal on the stems and branches. Bracts with midrib excurrent into a spine. Modified sterile flowers 0. Flowers solitary in the bracts, bisexual. Bracteoles 2. Tepals 4-5, 1-3(-5)-nerved, narrowly lanceolate, mucronate with the excurrent midrib. Bracteoles with a spiny awn, the awn exceeding the membranous wings of the lamina. Stamens 5 (in ours); filaments alternating with pseudostaminodes. Fruits strongly deflexed, closely appressed to the inflorescence axis. Worldwide: 6-8 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| aspera L. var. aspera | N,T,MS,GI,M | |
| aspera L. var. pubescens (Moq.) Towns. | N,Z,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| aspera L. var. sicula L. | N,Z,M | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Achyranthes:
Flora of Zimbabwe: AchyranthesePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Achyranthes
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Achyranthes
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Achyranthes
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Achyranthes
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Achyranthes
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