Atriplex coronata |
Atriplex sect. Obione |
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Habit | Herbs, erect or decumbent, 0.5–6 dm; branches terete, fructiferous almost to base, scurfy when young. | Plants usually annual, usually monoecious. | ||||||||
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. |
with Kranz anatomy. |
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Flowers | of both sexes in small axillary glomerules, 5-merous. |
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Staminate flowers | with calyx lobes not crested. |
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Pistillate flowers | lacking or rarely with a perianth (in A. covillei), enclosed by a pair of bracteoles. |
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Seeds | light brown to amber, 1–1.5 mm. |
radicle lateral or superior. |
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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. |
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Bracteoles | cuneate to ovate or obovate, united at least to 1/2 of length, faces with tubercles or crests or smooth. |
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2n | = 36. |
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Atriplex coronata |
Atriplex sect. Obione |
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Distribution |
CA
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United States; Mexico |
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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.) |
Species 28 (23 in the flora). (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. 346. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Obione > sect. Obione > subsect. Pusillae | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Obione | ||||||||
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Synonyms | A. elegans var. coronata, Obione coronata | |||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 9: 114. (1874) | unknown | ||||||||
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