SANBI Flora Keys - Classificatio<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706178101006_6587740867692498" data-jodit_selection_marker="start" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>n of Amaranth<span id="jodit_selection_marker_1706178101006_7471844851290474" data-jodit_selection_marker="end" style="line-height: 0; display: none;"></span>aceae
SANBI Flora Keys Logo
Interactive keys to the identification of seed plants of southern Africa using keys based on plant morphology.
  • Subfamily Amaranthoideae (Anthers 2-thecous);
    • Tribe Celesleae (Ovary pluriovulate; leaves alternate):
        • Celosia
        • Hermbstaedtia
    • Tribe Amarantheae (Ovary uniovulate; leaves alternate or opposite):
      • Subtribe Amaranthinae (Leaves alternate; seeds erect, radicle directed downwards):
        • Amaranthus
      • Subtribe Aervinae (Leaves mostly opposite; seeds pendulous, radicle directed upwards):
        • Achyranthes
        • Achyropsis
        • Aerva
        • Arthraerua
        • Calicorema
        • Centema
        • Centrostachys
        • Cyathula
        • Kyphocarpa
        • Leucosphaera
        • Marcelliopsis
        • Nelsia
        • Nothosaerva
        • Pandiaka
        • Psilotrichum
        • Pupalia
        • Sericocoma
        • Sericorema
  • Subfamily Gomphrenoideae (Anthers 1-thecous):
    • Tribe Gomphreneae (Ovary uniovulate; leaves opposite):
      • Subtribe Froelichinae (Stigma capitate or shortly bilobed):
        • *Alternanthera
        • *Guilleminea
      • Subtribe Gomphreninae (Stigmas 2(3)):
        • *Gomphrena