Gomphrena desertorum

Description

Gomphrena desertorum is a plant species described by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. Gomphrena desertorum is part of the Gomphrena genus and the Amaranthaceae family. Gomphrena comprises 301 species described and of these, only 138 accepted. They are herbs, annual or perennial, with prostrate stems, ascending or erect, stems and branches more or less pubescent with simple or dendritic trichomes , more or less appressed; hermaphrodite plants . The leaves opposite, decurrent on the petiole , more or less pubescent, pubescence generally more dense on the underside, simple or dendritic trichomes; petiolate or subsessile. Inflorescence a subglobose or short cylindrical, terminal or axillary, pedunculated or with 2-6 underlying herbaceous leaves and with sessile appearance , bractsovate or broadly triangular, glabrous or pubescent with simple trichomes, bractéolas shorter to longer than the flower, ovate, lanceolate or narrowly ligulate, glabrous or pubescent with simple trichomes, ridge present or absent, its margin subentero, dentate or lacerated, flowers lonely tépalos5, lanceolate or oblong, free to the base or sometimes connate at the base, scarious, frequently hyaline at the margin and / or apex, sometimes becoming hardened at the base, woolly abaxially with simple, long and wavy trichomes, 1- or 3-nerves; stamens 5, filaments almost completely joined in a tube, deeply emarginated or 2-lobed at the apex with the sessile or subsessile anther in the cleft, the wolves as long as the anthers or slightly shorter, unilocular anthers; absent pseudostaminodies; Ovary 1-ovulate, obsolete or elongated style, stigma forming 2 cylindrical or filiform branches. Fruit a membranous and irregularly dehiscent utricle ; cochlear-orbicular seed, without aryl; flower falling together with the bracts at maturity.