Distribution in Egypt
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Global Distribution
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Tropical Africa, Madagascar, tropical Asia and America.
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Description
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Erect or suberect, glabrous, semi-aquatic annual herb up to 150 cm tall with numerous thread-like roots, branched, somewhat succulent with more or less hollow stem. Leaves lanceolate-elliptic, usually acute, up to 12 cm long, 3.5 cm broad, entire, glabrous, subsessile to petiolate; petiole up to 2.5 cm long. Spikes acute, up to 5(-7.5) cm long and c. 1 cm in diameter on equally long or longer peduncles; bracts and bracteoles short, more or less spathulate, often upcurved. Flowers minute, densely crowded, white or greenish-yellow, only a few opening at a time Calyx 5-lobed; lobes ovate rounded, minute, glabrous. Corolla connate at the base, about 2.5(-4) mm long, usually white; segments ovate-triangular, obtuse or acute. Stamens 5; anthers subsessile, suborbicular. Ovary obovoid, 2.5 mm long, apex truncate. Capsule 4-5 mm in diam., calyx segments falling with the lid, leaving the basal portion attached and persistent on the rachis. Seeds numerous, c. 0.5 mm long, lightly rough with plicate-costate testa, yellowish-brown.
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Distribution
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Tropical Africa, C. Asia, Tropical Himalaya, India, Ceylon, Burma, east to China and Taiwan, Malaysia.
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Distribution
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Distribution: Trop. Africa, Asia and America.
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Elevation Range
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200-600 m
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per. July-Sept.
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Derivation of specific name
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zeylanica: from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Sphenoclea zeylanica Gaertn. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=157700
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Description
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Branched annual herb, up to 1.5 m tall. Stems hollow. Leaves lanceolate, narrowly ovate to elliptic, up to 12 × 5 cm, hairless; margin entire; petiole up to 1.5 cm long. Flowers in conical-cylindric spikes, up to 12 cm long. Corolla very small, white, greenish or pink yellow. Fruit a capsule, 4-5 mm in diameter, dehiscing below the calyx lobes, leaving the base attached to the rhachis.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Sphenoclea zeylanica Gaertn. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=157700
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Worldwide distribution
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Widespread in tropical Africa, Asia and (probably introduced) America
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Sphenoclea zeylanica Gaertn. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=157700
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Sphenoclea zeylanica
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Sphenoclea zeylanica, called chickenspike, gooseweed, and wedgewort, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the genus Sphenoclea, native to Africa, Madagascar, tropical and subtropical Asia, and Australia.[3] It is widely introduced in the New World tropics and subtopics from the southern United States to northern Argentina.[2] Its young leaves are edible and are occasionally eaten, perhaps with a light boiling.[3] A common weed of rice paddies, it can cause yield losses from 25 to 50%.[4]
References
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^ Fruct. Sem. Pl. 1: 113 (1788)
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^ a b "Sphenoclea zeylanica Gaertn". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
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^ a b "Chickenspike (Sphenoclea zeylanica)". World Vegetable Center. AVRDC. 27 November 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2020. eaten…with grated coconut
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^ Catindig, JLA; Lubigan, RT; Johnson, D (15 August 2017). "Sphenoclea zeylanica". irri.org. International Rice Research Institute. Retrieved 29 December 2020. The dirty dozen
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Sphenoclea zeylanica: Brief Summary
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Sphenoclea zeylanica, called chickenspike, gooseweed, and wedgewort, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the genus Sphenoclea, native to Africa, Madagascar, tropical and subtropical Asia, and Australia. It is widely introduced in the New World tropics and subtopics from the southern United States to northern Argentina. Its young leaves are edible and are occasionally eaten, perhaps with a light boiling. A common weed of rice paddies, it can cause yield losses from 25 to 50%.
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