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Chenopodium fruticosum

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Identification
Chenopodium fruticosum L. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Salsola fruticosa
  • Suaeda sp.
  • Suaeda vera
  • Chenopodium not on sheet
  • Chenopodium fruticosum
  • Suaeda fruticosa
  • Suaeda not on sheet

Flora

Entry for SUÆDA fruticosa Forsk. [family ]
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
SUÆDA fruticosa Forsk. [family ], Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. cix. and 70, Ic. 9;—Moquin in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1 re sér. xxiii. 311, t. 20, and in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 156; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 939; Volk. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 80; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 157; Baker and C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 91.
Chenopodium fruticosum Linn. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 221.
Salsola fruticosa Linn. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 324; Sibth. Fl. Gr. t. 255; Sowerby, Engl. Bot. t. 635.
Lerchea obtusifolia Steud. [family RUBIACEAE], Nomencl. ed. i. 187, 474; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 900.
Lerchea maritima O. Kuntze var. γ fruticosa [family RUBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 549.
Information
a much-branched evergreen shrub, 2–3 ft. high; branches erect-spreading, glabrous; leaves 4–5 lin. long, 1 lin. wide, slightly convex above, much so beneath, acute, glaucous, blackish when dry; flowers in axillary clusters of 3, the central flower alone perfect; perianth-lobes 5, nearly 1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, membranous at the margins; stamens 5, short; ovary long ovoid; styles 3, spreading; seed erect, slightly beaked. null
Range
Also in Tropical and North Africa, Europe and through the Orient to Western India.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Craddock Div.; without precise locality, Cooper, 584!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div., Zeyher!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Burchell! Schlechter!WESTERN REGION Namaqualand, Schlechter, 13 a!

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