Gomphrena globosa
Location: Kolonia, Likinkel #3,outside my house
Date collected: December 04, 1999
Collected by: Emiso Weilbacher
Synonym: Gomphrena globosa
- Genus species: Gomprhena Globosa
- Family: Amaranthanceae
- English name: Bachelors Button
- Mortlockese name: Weich
- Kosraean name:
- Pohnpeian name: Pawehs
- Woleaian name(outer island of Yap): Waish
Ulithian name: Flomen
- Growth form: Shrub
- Growth location: terrestrial
- Growth environment: cultivated garden
- Growht zone: tropical
- Average height: 28.6 - 37.5 cm
- Stem: at the bottom is brown and woody and the upper part is green and smooth
- Leaf arrangement: opposite
- Stipule: absent
- Petioles: 0.3 - 1.0 cm long
- Leaf blade: Deltoid to lanceolate shape, acute tip, green, top and bottom covered with
pubescence, pinnate venation, entire to serrulate margin
- Inflorescence: Panicle to compound umbel comprised of three or more headlike flowers
which actually contain tiny flowers in it, pedicel is 11.2 - 13 cm long
- Floral bracts: purple
- Flower: purple slaverform flowers
- Calyx: two free sepals, green in color, 3.5 - 4.0 cm ( underneath the floral bract)
- Corrola: fused five purple petals
- Stamens: four yellow stamens
- Ovary: posterior
- Style: unable to observe
- Fruit: none
- Seed: tiny, round, and brown
- Anyhting else: no floral odor
- Cultural usage: according to a Pohnpei superstition, they say that if you plant this
shrub in your yard and it died, someday and somehow, you will be moved from your land.
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