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10. Achyranthes Watsoni Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 5: 73. 
1915. 
Telanthera stellata S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 436. 1886. NotA i 
Alternanthera stellata Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 20: 451. 1895 Oe een en arena rear 
Alternanthera stellata glabrata Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 20: 451. 1895. 
Telanthera stellata glabrata Rose; Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 20: 451, as synonym. 1895. 
Erect or ascending annual or perennial, 4-10 dm. high, much branched, the branches 
slender, ascending, finely pubescent with branched white hairs when young, glabrate in age; 
petioles 2-20 mm. long; leaf-blades ovate, rhombic-ovate, oval, or lance-oblong, 2.5—10 cm. 
long, 1-3.5 cm. wide, thin, densely and finely pubescent with short branched whitish hairs 
when young, glabrous or nearly so in age; heads axillary, sessile, solitary or glomerate, as 
broad as long; bracts shorter than the sepals, ovate, long-attenuate to a rigid spinose tip, 
carinate, sparsely short-villous, whitish; sepals lance-oblong, 5 mm. long, acuminate to a rigid 
mucronate tip, whitish-stramineous, 3-nerved, short-villous; filaments linear, the staminodia 
ligulate, exceeding the anthers, slightly over half as long as the sepals, deeply lacerate at the 
apex; style elongate, the stigma entire; utricle broadly obovoid, obtuse; seed 1.2 mm. long, 
reddish-brown, shining. 
TyPE Locatity: Hacienda San Miguel, Chibuahua. 
DIstrouTION: Dry hillsides and plains, southwestern Chihuahua to Sonora and Sinaloa. 
11. Achyranthes ficoidea (L.) Lam. Encyc. 1: 548. 1785. 
Gomphrena ficoidea I,. Sp. Pl. 225. 1753. 
Illecebrum ficoideum 1,. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 300. 1762. 
Alternanthera ficoidea R. Br. Prodr. 1: 417. 1810. 
Paronychia ficoidea Desf. Tabl. Bot. ed. 2.14. 1815. 
Bucholzia polygonoides erecta Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 51. 1826. 
Bucholzia polygonoides diffusa Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: Si. 1826. 
Bucholzia polygonoides radicans Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 51. 1826. 
Bucholzia ficoidea Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 52. 1826. 
Steiremis ficoidea Raf. Fl. Tell. 3: 41. 1837. 
Telanthera ficoidea Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 363. 1849. 
Telanthera polygonoides diffusa Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13: 364. 1849. 
Telanthera polygonoides brachiata Moq. in DC. Prodr. 132: 364. 1849. 
peat ska polygonoides Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 67. 1859. Not Gomphrena polygonoides L. 
1753. 
Alternanthera polygonoides glabrescens Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 67. 1859. 
Alternanthera ficoidea brachiata Uline & Bray, Bot. Gaz. 20: 453. 1895. 
Prostrate or ascending perennial, rarely suffrutescent at the base; stems 2-10 dm. long, 
branched or simple, the branches slender, when young pubescent with short, appressed, 
branched or hispidulous, white hairs, glabrate in age, often rooting at the nodes; petioles slender 
or stout, 2-7 mm. long; leaf-blades elliptic, oblong, oval, or ovate-oblong, 2.5-5.5 cm. long, 
0.8-2.3 cm. wide, acute or rarely obtuse at the apex, acute or acuminate at the base, when 
young finely pubescent with short hispidulous hairs, soon glabrate; heads axillary, sessile, 
solitary or glomerate, about as broad as long, the flowers white or yellowish; bracts and bract- 
lets half as long as the sepals, broadly ovate, acuminate to a rigid spinose tip, ustially sparsely 
pilose; sepals lance-oblong or ovate, 3-3.5 mm. long, acuminate, mucronate, 3-nerved, short- 
pilose; staminodia equaling or longer than the filaments, ligulate, laciniate at the apex; style 
elongate; utricle suborbicular; seed 1 mm. long, dark reddish-brown, shining. 
Tyre Locality: Tropical America. 
Distrrsution: General in the West Indies; southern Mexico to Costa Rica and Panama; also 
from Colombia to Argentina. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. pl. 148; 149; 151, f. 1, 2. 
12. Achyranthes halimifolia Lam. Encyc. 1: 547. 1785. 
Illecebrum frutescens I/Hér. Stirp. Nov. 75. 1788. 
Ilecebrum Uipealatk eel Scop. Delic. Insub. 3: 27. 1788. Not I. alsinaefolium L. 1767. 
Iilecebrum limense Dum.-Cours. Bot. Cult. 1: 646. 1802. 
Paronychia frutescens Desf. Tabl. Bot. ed. 2. 54. 1815. 
Telanihera Crucis Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 362. 1849. 
Gomphrena Crucis Vahl; Mog. in DC. Prodr. 132: 362, assynonym. 1849. 
Illecebrum incanum Ricb.; Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 362, as synonym. 1849. 
Telanthera frutescens Mog. in DC. Prodr. 132: 365. 1849. 
Telanthera frutescens acutifolia Mog. in DC. Prodr. 13?: 366. 1849. 
