Atriplex coronata |
Atriplex lindleyi |
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crownscale, wedgescale |
Lindley's saltbush |
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Habit | Herbs, erect or decumbent, 0.5–6 dm; branches terete, fructiferous almost to base, scurfy when young. | Herbs, erect or suffrutescent perennial, 1.5–4 dm, woody at base. | ||||||||
Stems | terete, finely white-mealy when young. |
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Leaves | alternate, subsessile or proximal short petiolate; blade ascending, oblong, oblong-ovate, or lanceolate to elliptic, 5–40 × 2–10 mm, thin, base acute to obtuse, margin entire, apex acute to acuminate. |
alternate, petiolate proximally, becoming sessile distally, crowded; blade oblanceolate or proximal rhombic, 10–20(–30) × 3–15 mm, base cuneate or attenuate, margin entire to repand-denticulate, apex acute to obtuse, scurfy. |
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Flowers | of both sexes in small axillary glomerules, 5-merous. |
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Staminate flowers | in axillary glomerules, in short axillary spikes or terminal spikes. |
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Pistillate flowers | axillary, solitary or few and clustered below staminate. |
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Seeds | light brown to amber, 1–1.5 mm. |
dimorphic: dark reddish brown, 1.5 mm wide, or black, slightly smaller; radicle basal, horizontal. |
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Fruiting | bracteoles almost sessile, broadly cuneate, 2–5 × (2–)2.5–5 mm, united to summit, truncate at summit, sides smooth or obscurely tuberculate. |
bracteoles sessile, bordered by narrow horizontal wing or acutely angled, broadly turbinate or hemispheric, united except at minute apical tips, 6–12 mm, spongy and inflated at maturity, flattened at summit. |
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2n | = 36. |
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Atriplex coronata |
Atriplex lindleyi |
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Habitat | Sparingly escaped from cultivation | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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CA; Australia [Introduced in North America] |
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). Although placed within the Atriplex argentea species complex by P. C. Standley (1916), this taxon appears more nearly allied to A. cordulata, differing mainly in leaf shape, round-ovate or deltoid-ovate to elliptic or lanceolate (not ovate to cordate-ovate), and markedly tuberculate faces of the fruiting bracteoles. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 4. | FNA vol. 4, p. 342. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Obione > sect. Obione > subsect. Pusillae | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Atriplex > sect. Spongiocarpus | ||||||||
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Synonyms | A. elegans var. coronata, Obione coronata | A. halimoides | ||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 9: 114. (1874) | Moquin-Tandon: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 100. (1849) | ||||||||
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