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Spiny-headed chaff flower
Alternanthera echinocephala
About
Alternanthera echinocephala, known as spiny-headed chaff flower, is a shrubby plant in the family Amaranthaceae native to the Galápagos Islands, mainland Ecuador, and Peru. Its relatively large spiny "heads" of flowers distinguish it from other species of Alternanthera found in the Galápagos.
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Alternanthera echinocephala
- Slug
- alternanthera-echinocephala
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
- Genus
- Alternanthera
- Species
- echinocephala
- Wikidata QID
- Q2840382
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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