Flora of North America species comparison

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Atriplex subg. Obione
Habit Plants annual or perennial, monoecious to subdioecious or less commonly dioecious.
Leaves

usually with or, uncommonly, without Kranz anatomy.
Staminate flowers

with calyx lobes crested or not.
Pistillate flowers

lacking or rarely with a perianth (in A. covillei, A. pleiantha, and A. suckleyi), enclosed by a pair of bracteoles.
Seeds

erect;

radicle typically superior (except in A. pleiantha), erect, tip adjacent to styles.
Bracteoles

cuneate to ovate or obovate united at least to middle, faces with tubercles or crests or smooth.

Atriplex subg. Obione
Distribution
Mainly w North America; also Old World
Discussion

Species ca. 33 (27 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 4.
Parent taxa Chenopodiaceae > Atriplex
Subordinate taxa
Synonyms subg. Obione, A. section Obione
Name authority (Gaertner) S. L. Welsh: Rhodora 102: 418. (2001)
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