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Chenopodium glaucum

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Name

Identification
Chenopodium glaucum L. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Chenopodium glaucum
  • Chenopodium littorale
  • Chenopodium ambiguum
  • Chenopodium congolanum
Common name
  • Oak-leaf goosefoot, Flora of North America Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for CHENOPODIUM glaucum 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 glaucum Linn. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 220;—Fl. Dan. t. 1151; Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 72; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 49, 58; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 4.
Atriplex glauca Crantz [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Inst. i. 207.
Blitum glaucum Koch [family ], Syn. Fl. Germ. ed. ii. 699.
Information
a herb about 1 ft. high; stem prostrate or ascending, sulcate, much-branched; leaves ovate-oblong, repand or remotely toothed, rarely entire, glabrous above, farinose and pale green beneath, 1 1/2–2 in. long, 1/2– 2/3 in. wide; midrib prominent beneath; flowers in short dense axillary leafless spikes, glabrous; perianth-segments obovate-oblong, obtuse, not keeled, sometimes by abortion 3 or 4, not entirely covering the fruit; fruit greenish above; seed sometimes vertical; embryo annular. null
Range
Also in Europe and India.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Victoria West Div.; Nieuwveld between Brak River and Uitvlugt, 3000–4000 ft., Drège.COAST REGION Queenstown Div.; on the plains between Table Mountain and Wildschuts Berg, 4000 ft., Drège.

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