Amaranter – Amaranthus

Stems may be branched. Leaves are spirally arranged, petiolate, without stipules, green or purple. Leaf blades are simple, ovate, broadly lanceolate, obovate or elliptical, up to18 cm long, pinnately veined, and with entire margins. Inflorescences are complex, consisting of numerous agglomerated cymes arranged in axillary and terminal racemes and/or spikes that are often branched. Flowers are small (less than 5mm), subsessile, unisexual. Fruit is roundish 1.5-2.5 mm long one seeded capsule, dehiscing circularly. Seed is almost globose, obovoid or ellipsoid, sometimes compressed, 1-1.5 mm long, smooth, pale, reddish, brown or black.