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Celosia
Family:
Amaranthaceae
Flora of North America
Resources
Kenneth R. Robertson in Flora of North America (vol. 4)
Herbs or subshrubs,
annual or perennial.
Stems
erect or clambering-straggling.
Leaves
alternate, petiolate; blade mostly lanceolate, ovate, or deltate.
Inflorescences
terminal and often axillary spikes or panicles, often fasciated in cultivated forms, many-flowered.
Flowers
bisexual; tepals 3-5, distinct, membranous or scarious, usually glabrous; filaments connate basally into cups; anthers 4-locular; pseudostaminodes absent; ovules 3-many; style persistent, 0.2-4 mm; stigmas 2-3, capitate or subulate.
Utricles
ovoid, membranaceous, dehiscence centrally circumscissile.
Seeds
(2-)3-many, black, flattened.
x
= 9.
Species within checklist:
Phoenix Cultivated Plants
Celosia cristata