Alternanthera ficoidea

(Hidayat, 2017)

Classification of  Alternanthera ficoidea (L) P. Beauv
Regnum  : Plantae
Divisio    : Magnoliophyta
Classis    : Magnoliopsida
Ordo       : Caryophyllales
Familia   : Amaranthaceae
Genus     : Alternanthera
Spesies   : Alternanthera ficoidea (L) P. Beauv

Synonim : Gomphrena ficoidea L., Sp.

Description

Spreading to ascending woody herb; young stems rooting at nodes, either glabrous or densely pubescent all-round or in 2 lines. Petiole less than 1 cm long; blade ovate to elliptical, 2-9 x 0.5-4 cm, apex acute to acuminate, mucronulate, cuneate at base, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, becoming glabrescent, hairs simple or branched near base. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, sessile heads; heads globose, 3-10 mm wide; bracts and bracteoles white, hyaline, spreading, subequal, ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, 1.5-3.5 mm long, acuminate, aristate, pubescent. Tepals rigid, ovate to elliptical, 3.7-4.5(-5) mm long, acuminate, mucronate or cuspidate, brown to green below, becoming white above, hispidulous, prominently 3-veined, inner 2 tepals navicular; anthers oblong, pseudostaminodia longer than stamens, fimbriate or lacerate apically; style slender, ca. 0.3 mm long, stigma capitate. Utricle ovoid or suborbicular; seed dark reddish-brown, lenticular or cochleate, 1 x 1 mm (Sylvia Mota de Oliveira, tanpa tahun)

Spot Characters
Small wavy leaves with mixed red and green colors

Benefit 
Ornamental Plant

Distribution 
Tropical and subtropical Asia

Location 
Building A FPMIPA UPI

Local Name 
Jukut Jatinangor

Celosia sp

 (Hidayat, 2017)

Classification of Celosia sp L
Regnum  : Plantae
Divisio    : Magnoliophyta
Classis    : Magnoliopsida
Ordo       : Cariophyllales
Familia   : Amaranthaceae
Genus     : Celosia
Spesies   : Celosia sp L

Synonim : Amaranthus cristatus Noronha

Description

Habit and leaf form. Herbs. Annual, or perennial; plants with neither basal nor terminal concentrations of leaves. Self supporting, or climbing (occasionally). Leaves alternate; ‘herbaceous’; simple. Leaf blades entire, or dissected (somewhat lobed); pinnately veined. Leaves without stipules. Leaf blade margins entire. Domatia recorded. Stem anatomy. Nodes unilacunar. Secondary thickening developing from a conventional cambial ring, or anomalous.

Reproductive type, pollination. Fertile flowers hermaphrodite. Unisexual flowers absent. Plants hermaphrodite.

Inflorescence and flower features. Flowers aggregated in ‘inflorescences’; in cymes, or in spikes, or in panicles. The terminal inflorescence unit cymose. Flowers bracteate. Bracts persistent. Flowers bracteolate. Bracteoles persistent. Flowers regular; cyclic; tricyclic. Free hypanthium absent. Hypogynous disk absent. Perianth sepaline; 5; non-fleshy; persistent; accrescent, or non-accrescent. Calyx present; 5; polysepalous; imbricate; regular; persistent; accrescent, or non-accrescent. The fruiting calyx not berrylike. Calyx with the median member posterior. Corolla absent. Androecium 5. Androecial sequence not determinable. Androecial members free of the perianth; all equal; coherent; 1 - adelphous (the filaments basally connate forming a short sheath); 1 -whorled. Androecium exclusively of fertile stamens. Stamens 5; oppositisepalous. Anthers dehiscing via longitudinal slits; introrse; bilocular. Pollen shed as single grains. Gynoecium 2–3 carpelled. The pistil 1 celled. Gynoecium syncarpous; synstylovarious; superior. Ovary unilocular; 1 locular. Gynoecium non-stylate to stylate. Styles 1. Stigmas 2–3; dry type; papillate; Group II type. Placentation basal. Ovules in the single cavity (1–)5–8(–11); non-arillate; campylotropous.

Fruit and seed features. Fruit non-fleshy; dehiscent; a capsule; without fleshy investment. Capsules circumscissile. Seeds roundish; non-endospermic (strictly speaking). Perisperm present (abundant, mealy). Seeds with starch. Embryo well differentiated. Cotyledons 2 (Florabased, 2019).

Spot Characters

The inflorescences is purple like cock's comb

Benefit 

Ornamental Plant

Distribution 

Asia and other tropical and subtropical regions.

Location 

UPI SD Isola

Local Name 

Jengger Ayam

Gomphrena globusa

(Hidayat, 2017)

Classification of Gomphrena globusa L 
Regnum  : Plantae
Divisio    : Magnoliophyta
Classis    : Magnoliopsida
Ordo       : Cariophyllales
Familia   : Amaranthaceae
Genus     : Gomphrena 
Spesies   : Gomphrena globusa L 

Synonim : Amaranthoides globosus (L.) M.Gomez

Description
Habit : An annual erect herb, much-branched, stems and branches thickened, stout, young parts grooved, geniculate, pubescent and often tinged with red; older parts terete and glabrous, greenish-red or yellowish-brown

Leaves : Shortly petioled, opposite, oblong or oblong-obovate, acute, subacute or obtuse at apex, subcordate, rounded or tapering at base, entire along the margins, thinly hairy on both surfaces

Flowers :
Small, yellowish-white or purplish, in solitary or terminal or fascicled spicate heads, globose, large peduncled, bracts 2, foliaceous, below the heads.
Perianth of 5 sepals, unequal, lanceolate.
Stamens 5, filaments united at the base to form a tube, which has 5 teeth, anthers 1-celled.
Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled, stigma 2.

Fruit : Utricles ovoid, Seeds swollen, reniform.

Flowering and Fruiting Time : September - March

Significance :
Cultivated in gardens as a pot or border plant.
The roots are used in the treatment of coughs (Dr. Maulik Gadani, Tanpa tahun).

Spot Characters

Spherical inflorescences 

Benefit 

Ornamental Plant

Distribution 

Brazil, Panama, and Guatemala.

Location 

UPI Stadium

Local Name 

Bunga Kenop

Amaranthus gracilis

(Hidayat, 2017)

Classification of Amaranthus gracilis Desf
Regnum  : Plantae
Divisio    : Magnoliophyta
Classis    : Magnoliopsida
Ordo       : Cariophyllales
Familia   : Amaranthaceae
Genus     : Amaranthus 
Spesies   : Amaranthus gracilis Desf

Synonim : Amaranthus viridis Linnaeus

Description

Plants annual, sometimes short-lived perennial in tropics and subtropics, glabrous. Stems erect, simple or with lateral branches (especially distally), 0.2–1 m. Leaves: petiole 1/2–11/2 as long as blade; blade rhombic-ovate or ovate, 1–7 × 0.5–5 cm, base rounded, cuneate, or attenuate, margins entire, plane, apex obtuse, rounded, or emarginate, mucronate. Inflorescences slender spikes aggregated into elongate terminal panicles, also from distal axils, green, leafless at least distally. Bracts of pistillate flowers ovate to lanceolate, 1 mm, shorter than tepals. Pistillate flowers: tepals 3, narrowly elliptic, obovate-elliptic or spatulate, not clawed, ± equal, 1.2–1.7 mm, apex rounded or nearly acute, mucronate or not; style branches erect; stigmas 3. Staminate flowers inconspicuous, mostly at tips of inflorescences; tepals 3; stamens 3. Utricles ovoid to compressed-ovoid, 1–1.6 mm, equaling or slightly exceeding tepals, prominently or faintly rugose, indehiscent. Seeds black or dark brown, subglobose to thick-lenticular, 1 mm diam., minutely punctulate, rather dull. 

flower : jun-aug (summer), sep-nov (fall) (JSTROR, 1928).

Spot Characters

The stem is red in color

Benefit 

Edible leaf

Distribution 

Tropical Asia and America

Location 

UPI Ahmad Sanusi Building

Local Name 

Bayam Liar