ABSTRACT
B — Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem BM — British Museum of Natural History, London C — Botanical Museum and Herbarium, Copenhagen Cal — Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta G — Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneve (Geneva) GH — Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S. A. GOET — System atisch-G eobotanisches Institut, U niversitat
Gottingen HK — Herbarium, Agriculture and Fisheries Department, Hong
Kong K — The Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond,
Surrey, London KW — Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Kiev LE — Herbarium of V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg Linn. — Herbarium, The Linnean Society of London, London MW — Biological Faculty of the State University, Moscow. P — Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris PE — Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Beijing PR — Botanical Department of National Museum, Praha IK — P.N. Krylov Herbarium of State University, Tomsk TO — Instituto Botanico della Universita, Torino U — Botanical Museum and Herbarium, Utrecht UPS — Botanical Institute, University of Uppsala, Sweden W — Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (Vienna) Z — Botanischer Garten und Institut fur Systematische Botanik
der Universitat, Zurich
1. Amaranthus L. Sp. pi. (1753) 989
1. All inflorescences (small cymose racemes or glomerules) in leaf
axils and stem foliate up to t ip ......................................................... 5. + Small cymose racemes (glomerules) gathered in terminal,
elongated, pseudospicate inflorescences, often paniculately branched and without leaves at least in upper part; quite often, reduced axillary inflorescences seen along stem and branches ......................................................................................................2.