Low Amaranth, Spreading Amaranth at Mount Majura
Identification history
| Amaranthus deflexus | 28 Mar 2024 | Tapirlord | ||
| Amaranthus sp. | 14 Mar 2024 | abread111 |
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User's notes
Amaranthus macrocarpus is a good fit, but not on list. Used description in VicFlora for comparison.
Decumbent long glabrous stems, leaves with an almost transparent mucro, fruits and seed as shown in photos. Not on ACT census list. Have sample for botanist to examine. A native plant.
5 comments
Tapirlord
wrote:
15 Mar 2024
A.macrocaprus isn’t on the list as it in an arid species - but I can add it. Assuming that is what Isobel finds it to be, I’d prefer it go to the herbarium before we confirm it here.
abread111
wrote:
15 Mar 2024
Sure - will take it to the herbarium if I cannot get it to Isobel soon.
abread111
wrote:
15 Mar 2024
Arid zone but "Variety of habitats, mostly in depressions or low-lying situations." according to https://apps.lucidcentral.org/plants_se_nsw/text/entities/amaranthus_macrocarpus.htm and in VicFlora "Rather rare in Victoria, appearing only after summer rains along the Murray River floodplain downstream from about Echuca."
abread111
wrote:
25 Mar 2024
Unfortunately not the native Amaranth, but A. deflexus - see sighting 4559516
Tapirlord
wrote:
28 Mar 2024
Yes, I’m not surprised. Would have been quite unusual to see an arid taxa like A.macrocarpus turn up here.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.167340-35.228889
- Altitude 635.0m
- Maps Mount Majura
- Places Watson, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 11 Mar 2024 11:51 AM Recorded on
- abread111 Recorded by
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Additional information
- 10cm to 30cm Plant height
- True In flower
Species information
- Amaranthus deflexus Scientific name
- Low Amaranth, Spreading Amaranth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Minor weed or pest
- 635m to 638m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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In flower
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