Chenopodium giganteum D.Don

Common Name: ——-
Family: Amaranthaceae
Flowering Time: ——

General Appearance

Chenopodium giganteum D.Don , it is an erect annual herb, like the Chenopodium album L., but plant robust, tall up to 1.5 m, the young shoots and young leaves suffused purplish pink, and with large rhombic-delloid leaves up to c. 14 cm long, and equally wide. The inflorescence consists of terminal panicles with hermaphrodite flowers, which are wind pollinated.The flowers contain 5 perianth leaves and 5 stamens. The seeds have a diameter of 1.5 mm.

Life Form

Th

Phytochoria

S-Cosm. The native range of this species is Himalaya to Korea.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain:

Tripoli 1967

Notes

Introduced  in Libya.

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Chenopodiaceae Vol. (58) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.

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