Genus: Gomphrena
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> Core Eudicots
> Order: Caryophyllales > Family:
Amaranthaceae > Subfamily: Gomphrenoideae
About 120
species, native mainly to the New World tropics and subtropics and also
Australia; three species have become naturalised as weeds in southern Africa.
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