Flora of North America species comparison

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Atriplex sect. Spongiocarpus
Habit Plants annual or short-lived perennial, erect or procumbent.
Leaves

with Kranz-type anatomy.
Pistillate flowers

lacking perianth, enclosed by a pair of bracteoles.
Seeds

erect, or basal and horizontal;

radicle usually lateral.
Bracteoles

ovoid-globular to broadly turbinate or hemispheric, united almost to summit, erect.

Atriplex sect. Spongiocarpus
Distribution
Australia [Introduced in North America]
Discussion

Species 6 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 341.
Parent taxa Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Atriplex
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms A. unranked Halimoides
Name authority Buxbaum: Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 76: 46. (1927)
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