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Chenopodium album L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
219
ICN
Chenopodium album L.
species
Chenopodium album

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Chenopodium album L.

Erect or spreading, simple or branched, green or grey-farinose, sometimes reddish tinged, eglandular, non-aromatic, annual herb. Stems (2)-5-200 cm tall. Petiole usually 1-1.5× lamina; lamina extremely variable, usually 1.5-7 × 1-4 cm, lanceolate to ovate, rhombic or triangular, entire to coarsely serrate-dentate, rarely slightly 3-lobed; base usually cuneate, sometimes rounded or truncate; farina when present denser beneath, sometimes purple-tinged on young lvs, very rarely lamina bright green. Infls paniculate, sometimes very narrow, terminal and axillary, to c. 30 cm long, lacking subtending lvs in upper part, simple in depauperate plants, otherwise spicately branched; glomerules c. 8-flowered, dense or interrupted, ± farinose. Fls usually in dense panicles, sessile or subsessile. Perianth segments 0.5-2.5-(3) × 0.6-1 mm, broad and imbricate, accrescent; keel obtuse, green; margins broadly hyaline. Fr. completely invested by perianth; pericarp easily removed. Seed horizontal, (1.0)-1.1-1.4-(1.6) mm diam., flattened, circular, glossy black, generally smooth except for faint striations; keel obtuse.

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Chenopodium album L.
Chenopodium album L.
Chenopodium album L.
Chenopodium album L.
Chenopodium album L.

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Chenopodium album L.
Australia
Chenopodium album L.
Chile
Chenopodium album L.
France
Chenopodium album L.
Nepal
Chenopodium album L.
New Zealand
Chenopodium album L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Chenopodium album L.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Chenopodium album L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Chenopodium album L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Chenopodium album L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Chenopodium album L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Chenopodium album L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Chenopodium album L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Chenopodium album L.
United Kingdom

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f223ae36-58fe-43e8-9192-1e56881f9535
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
22 March 2007
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