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Bassia
Bassia indica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Amaranthaceae
Genus:	Bassia All.
Species
See text.

Bassia is genus of 26 densely branching, shrubby annuals or perennials belongs to the goosefoot family, originally natives to Asia but now found in warm-temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere. They are grown for their colorful foliage. Leaves are usually narrow and smooth-edged, and the flowers are normally inconspicuous spikes. Fruits are achenes (small, dry, single-seeded fruits). The plants are toxic to livestock and produce allelopathic compounds inhibiting the growth of nearby plants.

Species

• Bassia albescens
• Bassia americana
• Bassia birchii
• Bassia brachyptera
• Bassia butyracea
• Bassia calcarata
• Bassia curtisii
• Bassia djave
• Bassia eriacantha
• Bassia hirsuta
• Bassia indica
• Bassia lanicuspis
• Bassia latifolia
• Bassia longifolia
• Bassia paradoxa
• Bassia parkii
• Bassia prostrata
• Bassia scoparia syn. Kochia scoparia, Kochia trichophylla
• Bassia stellaris

References

• Lord, Tony (2003) Flora : The Gardener's Bible : More than 20,000 garden plants from around the world. London: Cassell. ISBN 0-30436-435-5
• Botanica Sistematica

From Wikispecies

Bassia may mean:

• In the Regnum Animalia - Bassia Quoy & Gaimard 1830 (Cnidaria : Abylidae)
• In the Regnum Plantae - Bassia All. (Magnoliophyta : Amaranthaceae)