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Chenopodium ambrosioides

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Identification
Chenopodium ambrosioides L. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Aellen,
Related name
  • Chenopodium chilense
  • Chenopodium integrifolium
  • Chenopodium anthelminticum
  • Chenopodium album
  • Chenopodium quinoa
  • Chenopodium ambrosioides
  • Chenopodium sp.
  • Ambrina unrecorded
  • Chenopodium not on sheet
  • Chenopodium spathulatum
Common name
  • Wormseed, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • Mexican-tea, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • wormseed, Flora of North America Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for CHENOPODIUM ambrosioides Linn. [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
CHENOPODIUM ambrosioides Linn. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 219;—Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1304; Thunb. Prodr. 48, Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 246; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 61, 106, 111, 133; Wight, Icon. t. 1786; Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 72, 460; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. v. 4; Baker & C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 79; Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. iii. 310; var. dentatum, Fenzl ex Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 106, 172.
Atriplex ambrosioides Crantz [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Inst. i. 207.
Ambrina ambrosioides Spach [family ], Hist. Veg. Phan. v. 297.
Information
stem herbaceous, erect, branched, 1–2 ft. high, more or less pubescent; leaves oblong, acute at both ends, sinuate-dentate or subentire, thin, puberulous, up to 4 in. long and 1 1/4 in. wide, shortly petiolate; flowers in clusters spicately arranged amongst the uppermost often linear-lanceolate and entire leaves; perianth-segments ovate, obtuse; stamens exserted; filaments linear; fruit entirely enclosed by the perianth; seed rounded at the margins, sometimes vertical. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and widely spread as a weed in hot countries.
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; flats near Claremont, Wolley-Dod, 2464! Castle Ditch (forma coarctata), Wolley-Dod, 2462! Uitenhage Div.; Uitenhage, Prior! Albany Div.; Grahamstown, MacOwan, 3409a! Queenstown Div.; plains near Queenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin, 2042! Shiloh, Baur, 789!EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1314! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 245!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Pretoria, Miss Leendertz, 13! and without precise locality, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 5783!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Pappe! Drège, 8029b! 8030!WESTERN REGION Little Bushmanland; Henkries, Schlechter!

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