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ophis: dried globe amaranth
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ophis: scarious stamen tubes exsert from pairs of folded pink bracteoles
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ophis: cottony flowers flat-ovate and sessile on narrowly conical spike
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ophis: color mostly limited to paired folded bracteoles broadly crested near summits
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ophis: cotton obscures calyces with five narrowly acuminate pink-tipped lobes
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ophis: calyces surround membranous stamen tubes five-lobed at summits, with anthers in ring just inside
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ophis: Leaves opposite. Stems quadrangular and appressed-hairy