Amaranthaceae

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Amaranthaceae - cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubsamaranth family, family Amaranthaceaecaryophylloid dicot family - family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowersCaryophyllales, Chenopodiales, order Caryophyllales, order-Chenopodiales - corresponds approximately to the older group CentrospermaeAmaranthus, genus Amaranthus - large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbsAlternanthera, genus Alternanthera - genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia; includes genus TelantheraCelosia, genus Celosia - annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and AfricaFroelichia, genus Froelichia - genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweedgenus Gomphrena, Gomphrena - genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australiagenus Iresine, Iresine - genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubsgenus Telanthera, Telanthera - used in former classifications systems; now included in genus Alternanthera