Gomphrena globosa L.
വാടാമല്ലി
| Family: | AMARANTHACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Bachelor's Buttons | ||||
| Synonym: | Amaranthoides globosus M.Gómez | ||||
| Common Name: | Chendumalli, Globe amaranth | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | August-June | ||||
| Distribution: | Native of Tropical America, cultivated in the warmer region of the world | ||||
| Habitat: | Grown as ornamental plant | ||||
| Uses: | Ornamental garden plant | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Annual herb, stem and branches striate or sulcate, densely clothed with appressed white hairs at least when young. Leaves broadly lanceolate to oblong or elliptic-oblong. Inflorescences sessile above the uppermost pair of leaves, usually solitary, globose or depressed-globose; bracts deltoid-ovate, 3-5 mm, mucronate with the shortly excurrent midrib; bracteoles strongly laterally compressed, navicular, mucronate with the excurrent midrib, furnished from the apex almost to the base of the dorsal surface of the midrib with a broad, irregularly dentate crest. Tepals longer, the outer more lanate and the inner less markedly indurate at the base. Staminal tube subequalling the perianth, the 5 teeth deeply bilobed with obtuse lobes subequalling the anthers.Style and stigmas together c. 2.5 mm, stigmas divergent, subequalling or slightly longer than the style.Capsule oblong-ovoid.Seeds compressed-ovoid, brown, almost smooth and shining. | ||||