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Chenopodium foetidum

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Identification
Chenopodium botrys Forssk. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Verified by P. Ascherson, 1881 Chenopodium schraderianum Schultes [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by F.N. Hepper (Kew), 1984 Chenopodium foetidum Schrad. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Chenopodium foetidum
  • Chenopodium suberifolium
  • Chenopodium schraderianum
  • Chenopodium graveolens
  • Chenopodium purpurascens
  • Chenopodium botrys
  • Chenopodium subserifolium
  • Chenopodium incisum
  • Chenopodium procerum

Flora

Entry for CHENOPODIUM schraderianum Schult. [family CHENOPODIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1954) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
CHENOPODIUM schraderianum Schult. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Syst. Veg. 6: 260 (1820); Bak. & C. B. Cl. in F.T.A. 6 (1): 80 (1909); Brenan in K.B. 1950: 131 (1950); Hauman in F.C.B. 2: 4 (1951). Type: a plant cultivated by Schrader, of unknown origin
CHENOPODIUM foetidum Schrad. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], in Magaz. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 2: 79 (1808); Aschers. & Graebn., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 5 (1): 24 (1913); Aellen in F.R. 24: 345 (1928); Aellen & Just in Amer. Midl. Nat. 30: 56 (1943), non Lam., Fl. Fr. 3: 244 (1778)
Information
Annual up to 1–1.3 m. high, upright; main stem simple or with few rarely many lateral branches, especially near base; plant green, sometimes red-tinged, shortly glandular and pubescent all over, strongly aromatic. Lower and median leaves elliptic to oblong in outline, mostly 1–5 (–8) cm. long and 0.5–3 (–5) cm. wide, mostly obtuse at apex, pinnately divided throughout each side into 3–5 narrow blunt lobes which are entire or with a few blunt teeth and all extend usually to within 2–3 mm. of midrib, glands between veins on lower surface of leaf all sessile (use x 20 lens), not accompanied by hairs; upper leaves progressively smaller and less divided. Inflorescence as in C. procerum (p. 11) but often tending to be smaller. Flowers greenish or red-tinged, minute, 0.5–1 mm. in diameter. Sepals 5, each with a prominent toothed keel outside from near apex to near base, glandular outside, glands all sessile (use x 20 lens). Stamens 1–2. Pericarp easily rubbed or scraped off seed. Seeds (Fig. 2/7, p. 3) black or nearly so, somewhat glossy, 0.7–0.8 mm. in diameter, bluntly and not prominently keeled; testa under microscope with very minute shallow contiguous rounded or angular pits.
Range
DISTR. U1, 2, 4; K3–7; T1–3, 7 from the A.-E. Sudan, Ethiopia and Somaliland southwards through eastern Africa to the Cape and Angola; rarely adventive in Europe; recorded from other parts of the Old and New Worlds, but apparently in error
Altitude range
1220–2290 m.
Distribution
KENYA North Nyeri District Nyeri, 19 Dec. 1921, Fries 138!KENYA Nairobi, Kirichwa ndogo valley, Jan. 1940, Bally 749!;KENYA Nakuru District Londiani, Dec. 1905, G. S. Baker 348!TANGANYIKA Bukoba District Nyaishozi, Dec. 1931, Haarer 2443!;TANGANYIKA Mbulu District Mbulumbul, 25 June 1945, Greenway 7445!;TANGANYIKA Rungwe District Kyimbila, 23 Sept. 1910, Stolz 292!UGANDA West Nile District Attiak, War, Apr. 1940, Eggeling 3911!;UGANDA Kigezi District Kachwekano Farm, Sept. 1949, Purseglove 3108!;UGANDA Masaka District Kyotera, Nov. 1945, Purseglove 1865!
Notes
For the differences between this species and C. procerum [Hochst. ex] Moq. see under the latter (above).A number of varieties and forms have been recognized under C. schraderianum, notably by Murr in Bull. Herb. Boiss., sér. 2, 4: 990–991 (1904), Aschers. & Graebn., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 5 (1): 24 (1913), and Aellen in F.R. 24: 345–7 (1928); these have been summarized by Hauman in F.C.B. 2: 6 (1951). None has so far been recorded for East Africa, although doubtless they occur. Hauman’s view that these are nothing more than states due to environment, or merely different stages in growth and development, is willingly followed here.

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