Family:
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AMARANTHACEAE
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Scientific Name:
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Local Names:
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Lupo, Lupo- lupo (Pal. Ilonggo)
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Other local names:
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Aritana (Ilok.), Bunga-bunga (Tag.), Karitana (Bis.), Halangbang (If.), Gogoat (Bon.), Kapal-kapal (Sul.), Kokoong (Bon.), Lapak-lapak (Sul.)[1]
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Uses: Young leaves mixed in sautéed mungbean and ‘sinabawang isda’
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Notes:
“Bunga-bunga is a spreading or prostrate, erect, more or less branched, glabrous, succulent herb, 0.4 to 1.4 meters high. The ultimate branches are covered with two lines of hairs on the internodes, and the flowering ones are ascending. Leaves are stalkless, simple or pinnately compound, the leaflets elliptic, crenate or obscurely toothed, usually about 2.5 to 7 centimeters long, thick and succulent. Flowers are minute, 5 to 7 millimeters long, paniculate, pendulous, white, and crowded in very short, axillary heads. Sepals are lanceolate, 2 to 2.5 millimeters long. Fruit is dry and flattened, broadly obcordate utricle,
containing one seed” [2]
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