Celosia vanderystii Schinz

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Amaranthaceae > Celosia

Characteristics

Inflorescence creamy, stramineous or pale yellowish tinged with pink, densely spicate, 5–20 × 4–5 mm., solitary, geminate or clustered at the apices of the stem and branches, usually subtended at the base by one or more reduced leaves.
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Tepals 1.75–2.25 mm. long, glabrous, oblong, acute, distinctly denticulate in the apical third with the teeth commonly divergent or even recurved, less distinctly so below, very shortly mucronate with the excurrent midrib.
Bracts and bracteoles persistent after fruit-fall, 1.25–1.5 mm. long, lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, membranaceous, more or less serrulate at the apex, very shortly mucronate with the excurrent midrib.
Erect annual herb, 10–40 cm. tall, simple or with a few to numerous long, ascending branches; stem and branches slender, striate, glabrous or with short, asperulous hairs especially towards the base.
Leaves elliptic or sometimes narrowly oblanceolate, 6–27 × 2–7 mm., glabrous or sometimes asperulous along the 2–5 mm. long petiole.
Seeds lenticular, black, shiny, c. 1.25 mm. in diam., reticulate centrally with convex areolae, almost smooth marginally.
Filaments with the free apex subequalling the basal cup; no intermediate teeth present.
Ovary biovulate; stigmas 2, erect, very short, shorter than the c. 0.25 mm. long style.
Capsule subglobose, c. 1.5 mm. long, not exceeding the perianth.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.4
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Environment

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Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 10 - 15
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Celosia vanderystii world distribution map, present in Angola and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60009-1
WFO ID wfo-0000593216
COL ID 5XGJ6
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Celosia gracilenta Celosia vanderystii