Atriplex coronata |
Atriplex phyllostegia |
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crownscale, wedgescale |
leafcover saltweed, Truckee orach |
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Habit | Herbs, erect or decumbent, 0.5–6 dm; branches terete, fructiferous almost to base, scurfy when young. | Herbs monoecious (or entirely pistillate), erect, much-branched, rounded, bushy, 0.5–6 dm. | ||||||||
Stems | mostly ascending, terete. |
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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. |
petiole 0.3–2 cm; blade 10–50 × 5–25 mm, base varying from shortly hastate to truncate or cuneate. |
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Flowers | of both sexes in small axillary glomerules, 5-merous. |
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Staminate flowers | in small to moderate, axillary glomerules near ends of branches, or in bracteate terminal spikes. |
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Pistillate flowers | in axillary clusters. |
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Seeds | light brown to amber, 1–1.5 mm. |
brown, 1.2 mm. |
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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 lanceolate or oblong, 5–14(–20) mm, sharply lobed to tuberculate at base, also often sharply cristate below usually attenuate apical lobe; tips widely recurved-spreading. |
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2n | = 36. |
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Atriplex coronata |
Atriplex phyllostegia |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Aug. | |||||||||
Habitat | Valley bottoms, silty or clay, less commonly, sandy alluvium with greasewood | |||||||||
Elevation | 1200-1500 m (3900-4900 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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NV
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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. 368. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Obione > sect. Obione > subsect. Pusillae | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Obione > sect. Phyllostegiae | ||||||||
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Synonyms | A. elegans var. coronata, Obione coronata | Obione phyllostegia, A. draconis, A. phyllostegia var. draconis | ||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 9: 114. (1874) | (Torrey ex S. Watson) S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 9: 108. (1874) | ||||||||
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