Chenopodium glaucum L.
Details
Chenopodium glaucum L., Sp. Pl. 220 (1753)
Nomenclature
L.
L.
1753
220
ICN
Chenopodium glaucum L.
species
Chenopodium glaucum
Classification
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Descriptions
Chenopodium glaucum L.
Prostrate or semi-prostrate annual herb, with young parts farinose, often reddish or purplish, sometimes green. Stems to 20-(30) cm long, slender, branched. Petioles 5-15-(18) mm long. Lamina 3-20-(55) × 2-18-(60) mm (including basal lobes), rhombic-ovate, narrow-elliptic, ± succulent, becoming efarinose and green or reddish above, nearly always glaucous-white-farinose beneath, entire, with few dentate teeth or sometimes basally lobed on each side; base cuneate. Glomerules few-flowered, axillary and terminal, sometimes spike-like, otherwise leafy to apex. Perianth segments 3-4-(5), broadly ovate, generally reddish except for margin, green or brownish at fruiting, membranous, not very accrescent, scarcely investing fr. Seed mostly horizontal, (0.8)-1-1.3-(1.6) mm diam., circular, compressed; margin obtuse; pericarp easily removed; testa glossy black, finely striated.
Taxonomic concepts
Chenopodium glaucum L.
Chenopodium glaucum L.
Metadata
5b74462e-8467-4deb-aade-f1549225cacc
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
5 November 2013