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Amaranth
Article By:
Jain, Subodh K. Department of Agronomy and Range Science, University of California, Davis, California.
Last reviewed:October 2019
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.026650
An annual plant (seldom perennial) of the genus Amaranthus (family Amaranthaceae) that is distributed worldwide in warm and humid regions. Amaranth plants are botanically distinguished by their small chaffy flowers (see illustration), which are arranged in dense, green or red, monoecious or dioecious inflorescences (spikes), with zero to five perianth segments and two or three styles and stigmata, and by their dry membranous, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit. See also: Caryophyllales; Flower; Fruit; Inflorescence; Plant organs
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