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Chenopodium littorale

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Name

Identification
Chenopodium littorale Moq. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Chenopodium glaucum L. [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Chenopodium glaucum
  • Chenopodium littorale

Flora

Entry for ATRIPLEX littoralis 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
ATRIPLEX littoralis Linn. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 1054;—Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 96, 460; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xxiv. 136, t. 266.
Chenopodium littorale Thunb. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], in Act. Upsal. vii. (1815) 142.
Information
stem erect, herbaceous, sulcate, 2 1/2 ft. high, much branched; leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate or linear, 1–3 in. long, 1 1/2–3 lin. wide, entire or slightly sinuate, rather thick; lateral nerves obsolete; petiole short; flower clusters distant on slender spikes paniculately arranged; bracteoles in fruit rhomboid-ovate, coarsely dentate on the margins and back, free nearly to the base, texture spongy, 2–7 lin. long; styles linear, thrice as long as the ovary. null
Range
Also in Europe.
Distribution
COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Uitenhage, Zeyher!

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