Atriplex serenana |
Atriplex parryi |
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bracteate orach, bractscale, saltscale, stinking orach |
Parry's saltbush |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, erect or sprawling, usually branched often forming tangled mats to 10 × (3–)5–20 dm, ascending branches sparsely scurfy. | Shrubs, dioecious, mainly 2–5 dm, armed. | ||||
Leaves | many, subsessile or very short petiolate; blade subconcolorous, lanceolate to oblong, elliptic, or oval, (8–)10–30(–40) × 3–12(–15) mm, margin sharply dentate to entire. |
, short petiolate to sessile; blade orbiculate-cordate, or ovate-deltate to elliptic, 7–16(–22) × 6–10(–16) mm, base truncate or tapering, entire or less commonly subhastate. |
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Staminate flowers | in glomerules in terminal spikes or panicles 3–20 cm, or reduced to solitary, rounded, terminal glomerule. |
in glomerules on interrupted, leafy paniculate spikes. |
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Pistillate flower(s) | in small clusters, axillary. |
in small glomerules borne in leafy, paniculate spikes. |
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Seeds | brown, 1–1.3(–1.5) mm. |
brown, 1.3–1.9 mm. |
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Fruiting | bracteoles sessile or subsessile (stipe to 1 mm), cuneate-orbicular to obovate, somewhat compressed, 2.1–3.5 × (1.7–)2–3.7 mm, united 1/2 of length, margin sharply and often slenderly toothed beyond middle, faces often rather strongly veined, smooth or with 1 or more slender or flattened appendages. |
bracteoles sessile or nearly so, truncate-flabelliform, 3–4 × 3–5 mm, thick and rigid, spongy, united to beyond middle, margin entire, faces smooth. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Atriplex serenana |
Atriplex parryi |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | |||||
Habitat | Saline, fine-textured soils | |||||
Elevation | 60-1500 m (200-4900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; NV; nw Mexico
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CA; NV
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Atriplex parryi occurs with greasewood, saltbush, saltgrass, and Nitrophila. The cordate-clasping, sessile leaves and spiny branches distinguish this species from its nearest congeners. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 361. | FNA vol. 4, p. 378. | ||||
Parent taxa | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Obione > sect. Obione > subsect. Arenariae | Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex > subg. Pterochiton | ||||
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Name authority | A. Nelson ex Abrams: Fl. Los Angeles, 128. (1904) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 378. (1882) | ||||
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