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Gomphrena celosioides - Inflorescence side view - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence side view; Kokrobitey Institute, Kokrobite, Greater Accra, Ghana; 5/2007 © Jörn Germer

Gomphrena celosioides - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Kokrobitey Institute, Kokrobite, Greater Accra, Ghana; 5/2007 © Jörn Germer

Gomphrena celosioides - Upper side of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper side of leaf; Kokrobitey Institute, Kokrobite, Greater Accra, Ghana; 5/2007 © Jörn Germer

Gomphrena celosioides - Lower side of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Lower side of leaf; Kokrobitey Institute, Kokrobite, Greater Accra, Ghana; 5/2007 © Jörn Germer

Gomphrena celosioides - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 1/2006 © Jörn Germer

Gomphrena celosioides - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Kokrobitey Institute, Kokrobite, Greater Accra, Ghana; 5/2007 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 315
Date of entry: 28.04.2006
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Gomphrena Weed

Mandarin: 银花苋 (yin hua xian)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Caryophyllales (112)

        Family: Amaranthaceae (17)(family description)

          Genus: Gomphrena (1)

            Epithet: celosioides Mart. (1)

celosioides => like genus Celosia

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

External links

Check for Gomphrena celosioides at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [12] Dokosi, O.B. (1998): Herbs of Ghana. Ghana University Press, Accra, Ghana.

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