WorldFloraDB - Dysphania schraderiana

Characteristics

Herbs annual, 20-60 cm tall, with a strong odor, covered with articulated, glandular hairs and sessile (rarely subsessile) glands. Stem erect, green striate, usually branched. Petiole 2-10 mm; leaf blade oblong, 2-6 × 1.5-3.5 cm, abaxially glabrous or slightly hairy when young, adaxially pubescent with articulated hairs and yellow, granular glands, rarely almost glabrous, base attenuate, margin pinnately lobed to parted, apex obtuse or acuminate, sometimes mucronate. Compound dichasia axillary. Flowers bisexual. Perianth 1-1.5 mm in diam.; segments 5, spreading in fruit, ovate to narrowly so, longitudinally keeled or crested abaxially, pubescent and with sessile glands, margin narrowly membranous. Stamens 5; filaments flattened; anthers subglobose. Utricle depressed globose; pericarp membranous. Seed horizontal, red-brown or black, sublustrous, 0.5-0.8 mm in diam., finely lineate, rim margin obtuse; embryo semi-annular, surrounding perisperm. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Sep-Oct.

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Annual herb, 0.1-1.3 m high, upright, few lateral branches, strongly aromatic. Leaves: inferior and median leaves elliptic to oblong in outline, mostly 10-50 x 5-30 mm, apex obtuse, pinnately divided on each side into 3-5 narrow, blunt lobes; superior leaves smaller. Inflorescences of dichotomously branched, axillary cymes. Flowers greenish or red-tinged, minute. Pericarp easily rubbed off. Seeds black.

Annual herb, up to 1.3 m high. Stems erect, red with many yellow glands. Leaves with blade oblong, deeply sinuately lobed, sessile, yellow glands present. Flowers: in loose, distinctly dichasially branched, terminal panicles; perianth segments with a few blunt tubercles on dorsal keel, green; Nov.-Jun.

Erect annual herb, up to 400 mm tall. Leaves oblong, pinnately divided, sessile yellow glands present. Flowers very small, in much-branched axillary, compound cymes arranged in large terminal panicles. Flowers green.

A herb. The stems are 60-130 cm high. The upper parts are hairy. The leaves are divided. The leaf blade is 3-12 cm long. There are glands under the leaf. The flower arrangement is loose.

Life form

annual

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

-

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

anemogamy

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

1.0 - 1.2

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

A tropical plant. It grows at higher altitudes in the tropics.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	animal food dye food gene source medicinal poison
Edible	leaves saps seeds
Therapeutic use	Bedbug (unspecified), Insecticide (unspecified), Worms (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-29
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-