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Chenopodium sp.

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Name

Identification
Chenopodium missouriense Aellen [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Chenopodium sp. Not On Sheet [family CHENOPODIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Suaeda calceoliformis
  • Chenopodium murale
  • Chenopodium ambrosioides
  • Chenopodium rhombifolium
  • Chenopodium sp.
  • Suaeda sp.
  • Suaeda fruticosa
  • Chenopodium rubrum
  • Chenopodium viride
  • Salsola altissima
  • Chenopodium hybridum
  • Chenopodium album
  • Chenopodium anthelminticum
  • Chenopodium bonus-henricus
  • Schoberia fruticosa
  • Chenopodium missouriense
  • Chenopodium maritimum
  • Chenopodium tenuifolium
  • Atriplex sp.

Flora

Entry for Chenopodium schraderianum Schultz. [family CHENOPODIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 1, page 133, (1988) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
Chenopodium schraderianum Schultz. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], Syst. Veg. 6: 260 (1820).—Brenan in F.T.E.A., Chenopodiaceae: 12, t. 2 fig. 7 (1954).—Wild, Comm. Rhod. Weeds: t. 24 (1955). TAB. 34. Type a cultivated plant.
Chenopodium foetidum Schrad. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], in Magaz. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 2: 76 (1808).—R.E. Fries, Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.- Kongo Exped.: 20 (1914) nom. illegit, non Lamarck (1778). Type as for C. schraderianum.
Chenopodium foetidum subsp. resediforme Murr [family CHENOPODIACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss.. Sér. 2, 4: 990 (1904).
Chenopodium foetidum var. resediforme Murr A & G. [family CHENOPODIACEAE], —Aellen in Fedde, Repert. 24: 346 (1928). It is not clear when this combination was made. Ascherson & Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 5, 1: 24 (1913) apparently made it a subvariety.
Chenopodium botrys [family CHENOPODIACEAE], sensu Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 347 (1916) non L.
Chenopodium sp. Eyles [family CHENOPODIACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 347 (1916).
Information
Annual 0.1–1.5 m. high, upright; main stem simple or with few, rarely many lateral branches, especially near base; plant green; sometimes red, shortly glandular and pubescent all over, strongly aromatic. Inferior and median leaves elliptic to oblong in outline, mostly 1–5 (8) × 0.5–3 (5) cm., mostly obtuse at apex, pinnately divided throughout each side into 3–5 narrow blunt lobes extending usually to within 1–3 mm. of midrib; lobes entire or with a few blunt teeth; glands between veins on inferior surfaces of leaf all sessile (seen under × 20 lens), not accompanied by hairs; superior leaves progressively smaller and less divided. Inflorescences composed of dichotomously branched axillary cymes which are usually aggregated into more or less leafy or leafless continuous cylindrical inflorescences 1.5–6 cm. wide and up to about 60 cm. long. Flowers greenish or red-tinged, minute, 0.5–1 mm. in diam. Perianth segments 5, each with a prominent toothed keel outside from near apex to near base, glandular outside; glands all sessile (use × 20 lens). Stamens 1–2. Pericarp easily rubbed or scraped off seed. Seeds black or nearly so, somewhat glossy, 0.7–0.8 mm. in diam., bluntly and not prominently keeled; testa (seen under microscope) with very minute shallow contiguous rounded or angular pits.
Habitat
Upland grasslands, but often a weed in disturbed or cultivated ground
Range
widespread in eastern Africa from the Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia southwards to S. Africa
Altitude range
1200–2000 m
2000
1200
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Odzani R. valley, fl. & fr. 1914, Teague 199 (K).Zimbabwe C Makoni, Dunedin. fl. & fr. 9.ii.1931, Norlindh & Weimarck 4953 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Matopos Hills, fr. vii.1909, Rogers 5370 (K).Zambia S Choma, fl. & fr. v.1909, Rogers 8027 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Mazoe, fl. & fr. viii.1905, Eyles 180 (BM; SRGH).Botswana SW Khutse, fl. & fr. iv.1972, Baker 22 (K; SRGH).
Notes
Among the species occurring in the Flora Zambesiaca area closely related only to C. procerum. For the distinctions see under that species.

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