Code
GOMCE
Growth form
Broadleaf
Biological cycle
Annual / perennial
Habitat
Terrestrial
GOMCE
Growth form
Broadleaf
Biological cycle
Annual / perennial
Habitat
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Achyranthes ternata Host |
| synonym | Celosia procumbens hort. |
| synonym | Celosia prostrata hort. |
| synonym | Gomphrena alba Peter |
| synonym | Gomphrena argentea hort. |
| synonym | Gomphrena bicolor hort. |
| synonym | Gomphrena celosioides f. grandifolia Stuchlík |
| synonym | Gomphrena celosioides f. parvifolia Stuchlík |
| synonym | Gomphrena celosioides f. suberecta Stuchlík |
| synonym | Gomphrena celosioides f. villosa Suess. |
| synonym | Gomphrena celosioides var. aureiflora Stuchlík |
| synonym | Gomphrena decumbens f. albiflora Chodat |
| synonym | Gomphrena decumbens f. aureiflora Chodat |
| synonym | Gomphrena diffusa Pav. |
| synonym | Gomphrena flava Pav. |
| synonym | Gomphrena globosa subsp. africana Stuchlík |
| synonym | Gomphrena hygrophila var. subecristata Herzog |
| synonym | Gomphrena ixiamensis Rusby |
| synonym | Gomphrena lutea Rusby |
| synonym | Gomphrena mariae S.Moore |
| synonym | Gomphrena perennis f. ramosissima Stuchlík |
| synonym | Gomphrena prostrata Desf. |
| synonym | Gomphrena trispicata Pav. |
| synonym | Gomphrena tumida Seidl |
| synonym | Xeraea celosioides (C.Mart.) Kuntze |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Global description
Gomphrena celosioides is an annual to shortly perennial herbaceous plant, prostrate, branched from the base. The leaves are elliptic to lanceolate, hairy especially towards the top. The stem is white and short. The inflorescence consists of small globular silvery white spikes.
Cotyledons
The cotyledons are elliptical, held by a short petiole.
First leaves
The first leaves are simple, opposite and fleshy. The lamina is elliptic to oval, the base is round and the apex is acute to obtuse. Both sides are pubescent, covered with dense white-gray hairs.
General habit
Gomphrena celosioides is a herbaceous plant, prostrate, branched. The stems are up to 20 cm long.
Underground system
The plant has a taproot system.
Stem
The stem is cylindrical and full, covered with a strong pubescence of long white-gray hairs applied towards the apex.
Leaf
The leaves are simple, opposite, held by a short petiole. The leaf blade is oblong or oblong-obovate, the apex acute or obtuse and the base is round. The margin is entire. The upper side is shiny glabrous or more or less pubescent with few long hairs. The underside is strongly pubescent, covered with long white-gray hairs. Parallel arcuate ribs are protrude on the underside.
Inflorescence
Inflorescences consist of terminal sessile spikes sub-tended by a pair of small leaves. The spikes are cylindrical to subglobose, 5 cm long and 1.3 cm wide of silver gray color.
Flower
At the base of the flowers are bracts of 2.5 to 4 mm long and bracts of 5 to 6 mm long, mucronate, with a dorsal ridge in the upper third. Flowers formed from 5 tepals 4.5 to 5 mm long, narrowly oval, more or less woolly, silvery gray.
Fruit
The fruit is a pear-shaped capsule, 2 mm long.
Seed
Seed compressed, ovoid, 1.5 mm long, brown and bright, weakly reticulate.
Gomphrena celosioides is an annual to shortly perennial herbaceous plant, prostrate, branched from the base. The leaves are elliptic to lanceolate, hairy especially towards the top. The stem is white and short. The inflorescence consists of small globular silvery white spikes.
Cotyledons
The cotyledons are elliptical, held by a short petiole.
First leaves
The first leaves are simple, opposite and fleshy. The lamina is elliptic to oval, the base is round and the apex is acute to obtuse. Both sides are pubescent, covered with dense white-gray hairs.
General habit
Gomphrena celosioides is a herbaceous plant, prostrate, branched. The stems are up to 20 cm long.
Underground system
The plant has a taproot system.
Stem
The stem is cylindrical and full, covered with a strong pubescence of long white-gray hairs applied towards the apex.
Leaf
The leaves are simple, opposite, held by a short petiole. The leaf blade is oblong or oblong-obovate, the apex acute or obtuse and the base is round. The margin is entire. The upper side is shiny glabrous or more or less pubescent with few long hairs. The underside is strongly pubescent, covered with long white-gray hairs. Parallel arcuate ribs are protrude on the underside.
Inflorescence
Inflorescences consist of terminal sessile spikes sub-tended by a pair of small leaves. The spikes are cylindrical to subglobose, 5 cm long and 1.3 cm wide of silver gray color.
Flower
At the base of the flowers are bracts of 2.5 to 4 mm long and bracts of 5 to 6 mm long, mucronate, with a dorsal ridge in the upper third. Flowers formed from 5 tepals 4.5 to 5 mm long, narrowly oval, more or less woolly, silvery gray.
Fruit
The fruit is a pear-shaped capsule, 2 mm long.
Seed
Seed compressed, ovoid, 1.5 mm long, brown and bright, weakly reticulate.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Vivacious
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China: Gomphrena celosioides flowers and fruits from February to June.
Madagascar: Gomphrena celosioides flowers and fruits well before annual crops.
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Reproduction
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Gomphrena celosioides is an annual to short lived perennial plant, it is propagated by seed. Small seeds are dispersed by water, animals and tillage tools.
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Morphology
Growth form
Erected
Prostrated
Leaf arrangement
Opposite
Leaf type
Simple
Type of prefoliation
Leaf ratio medium
Equality of opposite leaves
Opposite leaves equal
Latex
Without latex
Stem section
Round
Root type
Taproot
Hollow or solid stem
Solid stem
Stipule type
No stipule
Leaf attachment type
sessile
Lamina margin
entire
Lamina apex
apiculate
acute
Upperface pilosity
Less hairy
Upperface hair type
Pubescent
Wooly
Lowerface pilosity
Dense hairy
Less hairy
Lowerface hair type
Wooly
Simple leaf type
Lamina elliptic
Lamina section
flat
Lamina Veination
in arc
Flower color
White
Inflorescence type
Condensed spike
Stem pilosity
Dense hairy
Less hairy
Stem hair type
Short and long hairs mixed
Scabrous
Pubescent
Life form
Broadleaf plant
Look Alikes
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Gomphrena celosioides can be confused with Alternanthera pungens. G. celosioides has soft inflorescences compared to A. pungens which has spiny inflorescences. The leaves are smooth and covered with long hairs.
| Alternanthera philoxeroides | Alternanthera pungens | Gomphrena celosioides | |
| inflorescence (position) | axillary | axillary | terminal |
| inflorescence (insertion) | pedonculate | sessile | sessile |
| inflorescence (aspect) | not spiny | spiny | not spiny |
| hairyness of the stem | glabrous | subglabrous | highly pubescent |
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Ecology
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Ruderal species that grows in villages, and on roadsides.
Brazil: Gomphrena celosioides grows in the cerrado zone, in the south-eastern and southern regions, at the edge of forests, in wastelands and cultivated areas.
Central Africa: Gomphrena celosioides is a fairly common species in a wide variety of locations: forests, steppes, swamps, cleared soils, wastelands.
China: Species present on roadsides and rubble areas in Hainan and Taiwan.
Madagascar: Gomphrena celosioides grows on ferralitic soils, ferruginous soils and light and relatively fertile alluvial soils in sunny field. This is a cosmopolitan species that infests roadsides and near habitations; it is also a weed of rainfed crops such as rice, corn, peanut and cassava and pasture in sub-humid and semi-arid areas of the country in semi-intensive culture system. The Agro-ecological zones concerned are in Madagascar are the Highlands, Middle West, West, Northwest and Southwest.
Mauritius: This plant can be found along roadsides and in vacant plots; it is found occasionally in sugar cane fields.
New Caledonia: Commmon species in pastures and lawn.
Reunion: It is a roadside plant, of wastelands; it is occasionally found in sugarcane fields.
Thailand: Gomphrena celosioides is a weed in sunny places.
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Miscellaneous Details
Toxicity
Gomphrena celosioides is considered as toxic to horses, causing "ataxia" or dysfunction of the nervous system.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Description
Geographical distibution
Madagascar
Origin
Gomphrena celosioides is native to tropical South America.
Worldwide distribution
This species in South America and North America, tropical Africa and South Africa, Indian Ocean Islands, India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands.
Gomphrena celosioides is native to tropical South America.
Worldwide distribution
This species in South America and North America, tropical Africa and South Africa, Indian Ocean Islands, India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Local harmfulness
South Africa: Gomphrena celosioides is present in the eastern part of the country.
Madagascar: Quite recently introduced to Madagascar but remains generally sparse in crops. This is a weed relatively infrequent and sparse; but it may be locally abundant in upland rice cultivation in sub-humid zone (Middle West).
Mauritius: It does not represent a problem in crops because of its rare occurrence.
New Caledonia: Gomphrena celosioides is not in itself an invasive species of pastures but it participates in the degradation of a pasture by adding its abundance to that of other non-palatable species. Quite infrequent, and generally in the form of small stands, it is rare to need of controlling this species.
South Africa: Gomphrena celosioides is present in the eastern part of the country.
Madagascar: Quite recently introduced to Madagascar but remains generally sparse in crops. This is a weed relatively infrequent and sparse; but it may be locally abundant in upland rice cultivation in sub-humid zone (Middle West).
Mauritius: It does not represent a problem in crops because of its rare occurrence.
New Caledonia: Gomphrena celosioides is not in itself an invasive species of pastures but it participates in the degradation of a pasture by adding its abundance to that of other non-palatable species. Quite infrequent, and generally in the form of small stands, it is rare to need of controlling this species.
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📚 Uses and Management
Uses
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Medicinal: Gomphrena celosioides is used in traditional medicine to treat liver disease and skin. The extracts with methanol and ethyl acetate exhibit anthelmintic activities comparable to those of the piperazine citrate (reference product) and antibacterial and antifungal activities (ONOCHA et al. 2005). The aqueous extracts and ethanol plant also have anti inflammatory properties.
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Management
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Local control
Madagascar: Everywhere, Malagasy farmers use manual weeding to fight against Gomphrena celosioides.
Mauritius: It can be easily controlled by pulling or hoeing.
New Caledonia: The germination and spread of this species should be prevented as much as possible by maintaining a dense herbaceous cover. Manual removal of insulated plants is often enough to get rid of them.
Madagascar: Everywhere, Malagasy farmers use manual weeding to fight against Gomphrena celosioides.
Mauritius: It can be easily controlled by pulling or hoeing.
New Caledonia: The germination and spread of this species should be prevented as much as possible by maintaining a dense herbaceous cover. Manual removal of insulated plants is often enough to get rid of them.
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📚 Information Listing
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References
- Bromilow, C. (2001), Problem plants of South Africa. Published by Briza Plublications CC
- Le Bourgeois, T., P. Grard, L. C. Foxcroft, D. Thompson, A. Carrara, A. Guézou, R. W. Taylor and T. Marshall (2013). Pl@ntInvasive-Kruger V.1.0 : Alien plants of the Kruger National Park. Cdrom. Montpellier, France, Skukuza, South Africa, Cirad-SANparks-SAEON eds.
- Pooley, E. A Field Guide to Wild Flowers Kwazulu-Natal and Eastern Region. Published by The flora publications Trust c/o Natal Herbarium botanic Gardens Road, Durban 4001.
- Retha Van der Walt. 2009. Wild Flowers of the Limpopo Valley. Published by Coal of Africa Limited.
- MUHAMMAD ILYAS, ARSIA TARNAM and NARGIS BEGUM. 2013 -Biological Potential and Phytopharmacological Screening of Gomphrena Species Global Journal of Pharmacology 7 (4): 457-464, 2013.
- TAKIM, F. O., OLAWOYIN, O. K. AND OLANREWAJU, W. A. 2013 -Growth and Developpement of Gomphrena celosiodes Mart under screen house conditions in Ilorin, Southern Guinea Savanna zone of Nigeria Agrosearch (2013) Volume 13(2): 59-66.
- CAVACO A. 1954. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores 67è Famille AMARANTHACEES, 56 pages
- Kissmann, K.G. & Groth, D. 1992. Plantas Infestantes e Nocivas. Tomo II. Sao Paulo.
- ONOCHA P.A., AJAIYEOBA E.O., DOSUMU O. O. and LEKUNDAYO, O. 2005. Phytochemical Screening and Biological Activities of Gomphrena celosioides (C.Mart) Extracts. Nigerian Society for Experimental Biology NISEB Journal 2005 5(2) : 61-67.
- Blanfort, V., F. Desmoulins, J. Prosperi, T. Le Bourgeois, R. Guiglion and P. Grard (2010). AdvenPaC V.1.0 : Adventices et plantes à conflit d'intérêt des Pâturages de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Montpellier, France, IAC, Cirad.http://idao.cirad.fr/applications
- Plants of the World Online https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60397-1
- The World Flora Online http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000705896
- Flora of China http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200007001
Information Listing > References
- Bromilow, C. (2001), Problem plants of South Africa. Published by Briza Plublications CC
- Le Bourgeois, T., P. Grard, L. C. Foxcroft, D. Thompson, A. Carrara, A. Guézou, R. W. Taylor and T. Marshall (2013). Pl@ntInvasive-Kruger V.1.0 : Alien plants of the Kruger National Park. Cdrom. Montpellier, France, Skukuza, South Africa, Cirad-SANparks-SAEON eds.
- Pooley, E. A Field Guide to Wild Flowers Kwazulu-Natal and Eastern Region. Published by The flora publications Trust c/o Natal Herbarium botanic Gardens Road, Durban 4001.
- Retha Van der Walt. 2009. Wild Flowers of the Limpopo Valley. Published by Coal of Africa Limited.
- MUHAMMAD ILYAS, ARSIA TARNAM and NARGIS BEGUM. 2013 -Biological Potential and Phytopharmacological Screening of Gomphrena Species Global Journal of Pharmacology 7 (4): 457-464, 2013.
- TAKIM, F. O., OLAWOYIN, O. K. AND OLANREWAJU, W. A. 2013 -Growth and Developpement of Gomphrena celosiodes Mart under screen house conditions in Ilorin, Southern Guinea Savanna zone of Nigeria Agrosearch (2013) Volume 13(2): 59-66.
- CAVACO A. 1954. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores 67è Famille AMARANTHACEES, 56 pages
- Kissmann, K.G. & Groth, D. 1992. Plantas Infestantes e Nocivas. Tomo II. Sao Paulo.
- ONOCHA P.A., AJAIYEOBA E.O., DOSUMU O. O. and LEKUNDAYO, O. 2005. Phytochemical Screening and Biological Activities of Gomphrena celosioides (C.Mart) Extracts. Nigerian Society for Experimental Biology NISEB Journal 2005 5(2) : 61-67.
- Blanfort, V., F. Desmoulins, J. Prosperi, T. Le Bourgeois, R. Guiglion and P. Grard (2010). AdvenPaC V.1.0 : Adventices et plantes à conflit d'intérêt des Pâturages de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Montpellier, France, IAC, Cirad.http://idao.cirad.fr/applications
- Plants of the World Online https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60397-1
- The World Flora Online http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000705896
- Flora of China http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200007001
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Caryophyllales |
| Family | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus | Gomphrena |
| Species | Gomphrena celosioides C. Mart. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
