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Ceratocarpus
Sign in to saveCeratocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It has only one currently accepted species, Ceratocarpus arenarius, found in Bulgaria, Romania, Crimea, Russia, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, the Altai, western Siberia, Xinjiang in China, and Mongolia. A bushy herbaceous plant, no more than 30 cm tall (or wide), it is a valuable fodder for sheep, goats and horses, and it grows well in degraded and trampled soils.
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- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyAmaranthaceae
角果藜属（学名：Ceratocarpus）是藜科下的一个属，为一年生草本植物。该属共有角果藤（Ceratocarpus arenarius）等数种，分布于欧洲东南部、小亚细亚和中亚等地。
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Ceratocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. It has only one currently accepted species, Ceratocarpus arenarius, found in Bulgaria, Romania, Crimea, Russia, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, the Altai, western Siberia, Xinjiang in China, and Mongolia. A bushy herbaceous plant, no more than 30 cm tall (or wide), it is a valuable fodder for sheep, goats and horses, and it grows well in degraded and trampled soils.
==Species== Only one species is currently accepted, Ceratocarpus arenarius, but a number of names have been previously associated with Ceratocarpus: Ceratocarpus arenarius subsp. utriculosus (Bluket ex Krylov) Takht. Ceratocarpus caput-medusae Bluket Ceratocarpus maritimus Pall. ex M.Bieb. Ceratocarpus salinus Pall. Ceratocarpus turkestanicus Sav.-Rycz. Ceratocarpus utriculosus Bluket ex Krylov