young shoot icon Home All plants About

Kyphocarpa Schinz

Genus

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Amaranthaceae

Characteristics

Flowers in spike-like, densely pilose bracteate thyrses terminal on the stem and branches, shortly or long-pedunculate or subtended by 1–2 reduced leaves; each bract subtending a bibracteolate partial inflorescence of mostly 4 fertile flowers accompanied by 4 bracteolate sterile flowers consisting of slender finally spinous processes; partial inflorescences falling as a unit complete with bracteoles; bracts persistent on the inflorescence axis.
More
Utricle scarcely compressed, irregularly ruptured below by the developing seed, the rounded apex considerably pilose, gibbous to one side of the style with a short horn-like process.
Ovary scarcely compressed, uniovulate, considerably pilose above and corniculate to one side at the apex; style slender, stigma simple, capitate.
Stamens 5; filaments delicate, fused below with very short and blunt pseudostaminodes between; anthers bilocular.
Perianth segments 5, narrow, 3-nerved, mucronate, only a narrow central section coloured.
Leaves entire, opposite on simple or branched stems.
Erect annual herbs.
Endosperm copious.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention -
Sexuality -
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) -
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

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

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Images

Kyphocarpa unspecified picture

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1224-1
WFO ID wfo-4000020319
COL ID -
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Kyphocarpa

Lower taxons

Kyphocarpa angustifolia Kyphocarpa cruciata Kyphocarpa trichinoides
WorldFloraDB 2024