Amaranthus emarginatus subsp. emarginatus

Amaranthus acutilobus Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 19: 320
1894.
Euxolus emarginatus Braun & Bouche, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1851: 13. 1851. Not Amaranthus
emarginatus Salzm. 1894. Albersia emarginata Aschers. Ber. Deuts. Bot. Ges. 8: 121. 1890.
Stems slender, succulent, erect, ascending, or decumbent, much branched from the base, glabrous; petioles slender, 5-15 mm. long; leaf -blades rhombic-ovate to spatulate or obcordate, 7-20 mm. long, 5-13 mm. wide, abruptly contracted at the base and cuneate or acute, decurrent, retuse at the apex, usually deeply so, the sinus V-shaped or rounded, the lobes rounded, bright-green, thin, glabrous, prominently veined; flowers monoecious, chiefly in small axillary glomerules much shorter than the petioles, these crowded toward the ends of the branches to form a slender loose leafy spike; bracts lanceolate, twice as long as the sepals of the pistillate flowers or longer and equaling the sepals of the staminate ones, attenuate to slender rigid pungent green tips; sepals of the staminate flowers usually 5, 2-2.5 mm. long, elliptic-oblong, scarious, acute or acutish, the midnerve excurrent; stamens 5; sepals of the pistillate flowers usually 4, 3 of them similar to those of the staminate flowers, but only half as long, the fourth usually larger and similar to the bracts; style-branches 3, slender; utricle thinwalled,
indehiscent; seed 1 mm. in diameter.
Type locality: Described from cultivated plants.
Distribution: Southern Mexico; adventive in Germany, Austria, and southern Italy.