African Amaranth

Amaranthus muricatus (Moq.) Gillies; (Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 276, as synonym. 1849) Hicken, Apunt. Hist. Nat. 2: 92.
1910.
Euxolus muricatus Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 276. 1849.
Stems slender, erect or ascending, flexuous, 3-7 dm. high, sulcate-striate, glabrous, much branched; petioles 5-15 mm. long; leaf-blades linear to oblong-linear, 2-8 cm. long, rounded at the apex, apiculate, attenuate at the base and decurrent, deep-green, glabrous; flowers monoecious, in dense, often interrupted, erect or drooping, paniculate spikes, these 1.5-6 cm. long; bracts broadly ovate, obtuse or acutish, shorter than the flowers; sepals 5, narrowly. oblong, obtuse or acutish, 1-nerved, mucronate, 1.75 mm. long; stamens 3; style-branches 3, short; utricle subglobose, about equaling the sepals, indehiscent, strongly rugosetuberculate; seed obovoid, 1.5 mm. long, dark reddish-brown or black, dull.
Typ:^ locality: Near Mendoza, Argentina.
Distribution: Argentina; adventive about Mobile, Alabama; adventive, also, in France and Spain.