Month: January 2013

Species: Amaranthus viridis English Name: Green Amaranth Chinese Name: 綠莧、野莧、皺果莧 Family: Amaranthaceae Description: Stem erect, green or somewhat tinged purple, 40-80 cm tall, conspicuously angulate, slightly branched, glabrous. Petiole 3-6 cm, green or somewhat tinged purple; leaf blade ovate, ovate-oblong, or ovate-elliptic, 3-9 × 2.5-6 cm, base broadly cuneate or subtruncate, margin entire or slightly undulate, apex notched or…

Species: Amaranthus tricolor English Name: Chinese Spinach Chinese Name: 莧、三色莧 Family: Amaranthaceae Description: Stem green or red, 80-150 cm tall, stout, often branched. Petiole green or red, 2-6 cm; leaf blade green, red, purple, or yellow, ovate, ovate-rhombic, or lanceolate, 4-10 × 2-7 cm, glabrous, base cuneate, margin entire or undulate, apex obtuse or notched, with a mucro. Flowers…

Species: Amaranthus blitum English Name: Emarginate Amaranth Chinese Name: 凹頭莧 Family: Amaranthaceae Description: Stem ascending, light green or purple, 10-30 cm tall, branched from base, glabrous. Petiole 1-3.5 cm; leaf blade ovate or ovate-rhombic, 1.5-4.5 × 1-3 cm, base cuneate, margin entire or slightly undulate, apex notched, with a mucro. Flower clusters axillary, those of terminal clusters erect spikes…

Species: Alternanthera philoxeroides English Name: Alligator-weed Chinese Name: 空心蓮子草、水花生 Family: Amaranthaceae Description: Herbs perennial. Stem ascending from a creeping base, 55-120 cm, branched; young stem and leaf axil white hairy; old ones glabrous. Petiole 3-10 mm, glabrous or slightly hairy; leaf blade oblong, oblong-obovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-5 × 0.7-2 cm, glabrous or ciliate, adaxially muricate, base attenuate, margin entire,…

Species: Alternanthera paronychioides English Name: Star Alternanthera Chinese Name: 星星蝦鉗菜 Family: Amaranthaceae Description: Herbs perennial. Stem densely barbellate hairy, glabrescent. Leaf blade oblanceolate or spatulate, 1.5-2 × 0.3-0.5 cm, abaxially barbellate hairy, apex obtuse to rounded. Heads sessile, ovoid to globose, often hairy at base. Tepals white, ovate-oblong, scarious, hairy along veins, outer 3 segments: 3-veined in proximal half,…

Species: Pilea cadierei English Name: Alluminum Plant Chinese Name: 花葉冷水花 Family: Urticaceae Description: HHerbs perennial or subshrubs, rhizomatous, glabrous, dioecious. Stems erect, 15-40 cm tall, somewhat succulent, woody at base; stems, stipules, petioles, and leaves densely covered with cystoliths. Stipules caducous, green, brownish when dry, oblong, 10-13 mm, papery, longitudinally 2-ribbed; petiole subequal in length, 0.7-1.5 cm; leaf blade…

Species: Alternanthera dentata English Name: Red Dragon Alternanthera Chinese Name: 紅龍草 Family: Amaranthaceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:

Species: Alternanthera nodifloraa English Name: Common Joyweed Chinese Name: 線葉蝦鉗菜 Family: Amaranthaceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References: