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Atriplex portulacoides

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Identification
Atriplex portulacoides L. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Halimione portulacoides (L.) Aellen [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hepper,
Related name
  • Atriplex glauca
  • Atriplex halimus
  • Atriplex capensis
  • Atriplex vestita
  • Atriplex portulacoides
  • Halimus portulacoides
  • Halimione portulacoides
  • Atriplex auierea
  • Chenopodium viride

Flora

Entry for ATRIPLEX portulacoides Gmel. [family CHENOPODIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 433, (1912) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
ATRIPLEX portulacoides Gmel. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Syst. 450;—Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. ii. 957; Fl. Dan. t. 1889.
Chenopodium portulacoides Thunb. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 245.
Obione portulacoides Moquin [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Chenop. Enum. 75, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 112; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xxiv. 145, t. 271.
Halimus portulacoides Dumort. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Fl. Belg. 20.
Information
an unarmed shrub, procumbent at the base; branches angular; leaves opposite, obovate or oblong, rather obtuse, quite entire, rarely with 1–2 small teeth, rather thick, 1–1 1/2 in. long, 2–4 lin. wide, densely covered with silvery lepidote scales; petiole about 3 lin. long; flower-clusters globose, distant on spikes collected into terminal panicles, yellowish; perianth-segments rotundate, lepidote; filaments rather longer than the perianth, shortly united below; bracteoles in fruit obcordate-trapezoid, 3-lobed at the apex, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; seed dark brown, beaked. null
Range
Also in Western Europe, from Britain southwards and throughout the Mediterranean region.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg.

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