Amaranthus hybridus

الوصف النباتي

Bracts & bracteoles : Bracteoles broadly oval at the base, prolonged into a stiff spine; their length varies with the infraspecific taxa.

الأوراق

Leaves : Long-petiolate, ovate- to rhomboid-oval; colour variable—wholly green, green suffused red, or entirely dark red-purple; blades glabrous or nearly so.

الأزهار

Flowers : Most often 5-merous, occasionally 3- or 4-merous; sepals oblong-lanceolate, finely acuminate; perianth segments narrower and shorter than the fruit.، Inflorescence : Axillary glomerules aggregated into several spikes that together form an erect to slightly nodding terminal panicle; terminal spike usually a little inclined but never pendulous.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit : Ellipsoid-compressed pyxidium; seeds black, shining.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Flowering period : May – December in the Levant.

الانتشار الموثق

Native range : Sub-cosmopolitan; probably native to tropical America. In Lebanon and Syria it is widely naturalised from the coast (Beirut, Nahr Damour, Tyr) through foothill villages (Bikfaya, Jezzine, Ksara) to cooler mid-mountain localities such as Qrayé, Ehden and Jabal Qartaba.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit : Robust annual 30 – 100 cm tall, erect, green or red-tinged, usually single-stemmed but sometimes sparingly branched; stem and foliage ± pubescent.

دورة الحياة

حولية

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Amaranthus hybridus

الفصيلة

قَطيفيّة

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

سويد

Suaeda fruticosa (L.) Forssk.

ملاح

Atriplex halimus

غبيرية

Chenopodium album

صر نقطي

Noaea mucronata