Flora of North America species comparison

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Atriplex lindleyi

Lindley's saltbush
Habit Herbs, erect or suffrutescent perennial, 1.5–4 dm, woody at base.
Stems

terete, finely white-mealy when young.
Leaves

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.
Staminate flowers

in axillary glomerules, in short axillary spikes or terminal spikes.
Pistillate flowers

axillary, solitary or few and clustered below staminate.
Seeds

dimorphic: dark reddish brown, 1.5 mm wide, or black, slightly smaller;

radicle basal, horizontal.
Fruiting

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.

Atriplex lindleyi
Habitat Sparingly escaped from cultivation
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Australia [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 342.
Parent taxa Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Atriplex > sect. Spongiocarpus
Sibling taxa
A. acanthocarpa, A. amnicola, A. argentea, A. californica, A. canescens, A. confertifolia, A. cordulata, A. coronata, A. corrugata, A. coulteri, A. covillei, A. dioica, A. elegans, A. fruticulosa, A. gardneri, A. garrettii, A. glabriuscula, A. gmelinii, A. graciliflora, A. heterosperma, A. holocarpa, A. hortensis, A. hymenelytra, A. joaquiniana, A. klebergorum, A. laciniata, A. lentiformis, A. leucophylla, A. linearis, A. littoralis, A. matamorensis, A. mucronata, A. nudicaulis, A. nummularia, A. oblongifolia, A. obovata, A. pacifica, A. parishii, A. parryi, A. patula, A. pentandra, A. phyllostegia, A. pleiantha, A. polycarpa, A. powellii, A. prostrata, A. pusilla, A. rosea, A. saccaria, A. semibaccata, A. serenana, A. spinifera, A. suberecta, A. suckleyi, A. tatarica, A. torreyi, A. truncata, A. tularensis, A. watsonii, A. wolfii, A. wrightii
Synonyms A. halimoides
Name authority Moquin-Tandon: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 100. (1849)
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