Atriplex coronata |
Atriplex wolfii |
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crownscale, wedgescale |
slender orach, Wolf's saltweed |
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Habit | Herbs, erect or decumbent, 0.5–6 dm; branches terete, fructiferous almost to base, scurfy when young. | Herbs, slender, delicate. | ||||||||||||
Stems | simple or more commonly branched throughout, mainly 0.7–3.5 dm, branches terete; herbage scurfy. |
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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. |
blade concolorous, linear to narrowly lanceolate, mainly 4–25 × 1–3 mm. |
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Flowers | of both sexes in small axillary glomerules, 5-merous. |
very small, both sexes in the same sessile, axillary clusters. |
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Staminate flowers | sepals 5. |
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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 sessile, ovate to cuneate in outline, 1.5–2.7 × 1.1–2.1 mm, apex truncate to attenuate, faces smooth or tuberculate. |
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2n | = 36. |
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Atriplex coronata |
Atriplex wolfii |
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Distribution |
CA
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CO; UT; WY |
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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.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4. | FNA vol. 4, p. 355. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Obione > sect. Obione > subsect. Pusillae | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Obione > sect. Obione > subsect. Wolfianae | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | A. elegans var. coronata, Obione coronata | Obione wolfii | ||||||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 9: 114. (1874) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 9: 112. (1874) | ||||||||||||
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