Cyathula achyranthoides (Kunth) Moq.

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution

Naturalizada en Colombia; Alt. 0 - 1400 m.; Amazonia, Andes, Llanura del Caribe, Orinoquia, Pacífico, Valle del Cauca, Valle del Magdalena.

Morphology General Habit

Hierba

Conservation

No Evaluada

The Useful Plants of Boyacá project

Distribution

Naturalised in Colombia.

Morphology General Habit

Herb.

Ecology

Alt. 0 - 1400 m.

Distribution

Biogeografic region: Amazonia, Andean, Caribbean, Orinoquia, Pacific. Elevation range: 0–1400 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Amazonas, Antioquia, Atlántico, Boyacá, Caquetá, Chocó, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Quindío, Santander, Valle del Cauca, Vaupés.

Habit

Herb.

Ecology

Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: forest and woodland, savanna, shrubland, wetlands (inland), desert, artificial - terrestrial.

Vernacular

Pega pega

Amaranthaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:1. 1954

Morphology General Habit

Robust, much-branched herb, to 3 or 6 ft. high; leaves and flowers green

Ecology

In forests, swamps and waste places.

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation

Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident

Amaranthaceae, C.C. Townsend. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1985

Morphology General Habit

Annual (?) herb up to ± 1.2 m. tall, erect, or ascending with the lowest nodes rooting, simple or branched from the base and frequently also above.

Morphology Stem

Stems and branches terete near the base, becoming bluntly and finally more conspicuously tetragonous upwards, thinly to moderately pilose with appressed brownish hairs, especially about the somewhat swollen nodes.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves elliptic-obovate, 4–16 × 1.5–8 cm., acute to distinctly acuminate above and mucronate with the shortly excurrent midrib, attenuate to the base and sessile, with scattered appressed hairs on the surfaces and usually more densely pilose along the midrib and primary venation.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Spikes terminal on the stem and branches, dense (the flowers falling early at maturity so that the spikes remain dense, rarely with remote lower flowers), ± 8 mm. in diameter and 2–10(–15) cm. long; peduncle of terminal spikes to ± 6.5 cm.; bracts deltoid-lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm., membranous, mucronate with the shortly excurrent darker midrib, almost or quite glabrous; bracteoles deltoid-ovate, 2–3 mm., hyaline, ± long-pilose, the brownish midrib excurrent in a long frequently uncinate arista; flowers in very shortly pedunculate cymose clusters of 1–2 hermaphrodite flowers each subtended by 2–3 modified flowers.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Tepal

Tepals oblong-lanceolate, 3–5 mm., 3-nerved with the lateral nerves strongest in the outer tepals, long-pilose, midrib joined by the lateral nerves just below the apex and excurrent to form a short mucro, or in one or more of the outer tepals an uncinate arista.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Modified flowers of a number of uncinate-aristate processes, the outer deltoid-ovate below and bracteole-like, the remainder gradually narrower and transitional to ± 2–4 hooked spines; flower clusters ovoid, finally deflexed, falling as a unit to form a burr ± 6 mm. long with the spines much exceeding the fertile flower(s).

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens

Filaments very slender, 1.75–2 mm., delicate, the pseudostaminodes subulate, less than half the length of the filaments, entire or dentate.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style

Style slender, 1 mm.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Capsule ovoid, 2 mm., delicate save for the narrow firm apex.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seed ovoid, 1.75 mm., yellowish brown, smooth and shining.

Habitat

In forests as ground cover, along paths, etc., often near lakes or water holes; 1130–1180 m.

Distribution

widespread in tropical Africa from Sierra Leone and the Sudan to Zaire and Madagascaralso widespread throughout tropical America T1 U4

Use Environmental

Environmental uses.

Use Food

Used for food.

Use Materials

Used as material.

Use Medicines

Medical uses.