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.