Atriplex L.

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
GENUS: Published in
L. In: Sp. Pl.: 1052. (1753).

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Classification

kingdom
Plantae: phylum
Tracheophyta: class
Magnoliopsida: order
Caryophyllales: family
Amaranthaceae: genus
Atriplex

habit

herb

Atriplex L

15. Atriplex L.

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Atriplex L., Sp. Pl.: 1052 (1753);Aellen, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 68 345-434 (1937/38), 70: 1-61 (1940);Kowal, Monogr. Bot. 1 87-163 (1954);Tascherau, Can. J. Bot. 50: 1571-1594 (1972)Jones, Watsonia 10: 233-251 (1975).

Obione Geirtner (1791).

Halimione Aellen (1938).

Blackiella Aellen (1938).

Morrisiella Aellen (1938).

Pachypharynx Aellen (1938).

Senniellu Aellen (1938).

Annual or perennial herbs, subshrubs or shrubs, monoecious or dioecious with some bisexual flowers. Flowers solitary or in clusters, these in spiciform or paniculate infloresences; flowers 3-5-lobed; stamens 3-5; bracteoles often triangular, in fruit accrescent, connate, often indurated; stigmas 2(-3). Pericarp free or slightly adherent; seeds vertical, rarely horizontal; fruits heterocarpous; embryo annular; radicle ascending superior to superior. Zn = 18, 27, 36, 45, 54. About 300 spp., worldwide. The genus Pachypharynx was based on two species; the types of both consisted of galled specimens of Azriplex (cf. Wilson 1984).

Atriplex L., Sp. Pl.: 979 1753

4. Atriplex L., Sp. Pl.: 979 (1753).

Lectotype

(designated by McNeill et al. 1983): Atriplex hortensis L.

Description.

Annual herbs, subshrubs or shrubs, monoecious or dioecious, covered with bladder hairs having short basal cell and globular terminal cell; occasionally, other hair types (simple bristle-like or curved hairs) can be detected under higher magnification. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple, flat, petiolate. Inflorescence leafy or not, consisting of few or numerous flowers that are usually unisexual. The male and bisexual flowers are enclosed by (3-4)5 green perianth segments that remain unchanged at fruiting in bisexual flowers; female flowers enclosed by two accrescent perianth segments [valves] (often called ‘bracteoles’ or bract-like cover) that are free or connate to varying degrees. Seeds have a vertical embryo, some seeds rarely with horizontally orientated embryo. Often (in annual species) heterospermy is present (seed coat black and brown/red).

The largest genus amongst the Chenopodiaceae (~260 species).

Name

Synonyms: Armola (Kirschl.) Montandon; Blackiella Aellen; Cremnophyton Brullo & Pavone; Halimione Aellen; Halimus Wallr.; Haloxanthium Ulbr.; Lophocarya Nutt. ex Moq.; Morrisiella Aellen; Neopreissia Ulbr.; Obione (Spreng) Moq.; Obione Gaertn.; Pachypharynx Aellen; Phyllocarpa Nutt. ex Moq.; Pterocarya Nutt. ex Moq.; Pterochiton Torr. & Frém.; Schizotheca (C.A.Mey.) Lindl.; Senniella Aellen; Sukhorukovia Vasjukov; Teutliopsis (Dumort.) Celak.; Theleophyton Moq.
Homonyms: Atriplex L.
Common names: Melde in German; Melde in language.; Mældeslægten in Danish; saltbush in English; saltbush in English; Orache in English; Orache in English; Orache in English; Saltbushes in English; fetmållor in Swedish; jáfon in Northern Sami; saltbush in English; orach in English; orache in English; oraches in English; oraches in English; strandmållor in Swedish; strandmållor in Swedish; tangmeldeslekta in Nynorsk, Norwegian; tangmeldeslekta in Norwegian Bokmål

Bibliographic References

Farr, E. R.; Zijlstra, G. (eds). (1996-current). Index Nominum Genericorum (ING). A compilation of generic names published for organisms covered by the ICN: International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants. [previously: organisms covered by the International Code for Botanical Nomenclature] (2007 version).
Farr, E. R.; Zijlstra, G. (eds). (1996-current). Index Nominum Genericorum (ING). A compilation of generic names published for organisms covered by the ICN: International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants. [previously: organisms covered by the International Code for Botanical Nomenclature] (2007 version).
GRIN Taxonomy for Plants: U.S. National Plant Germplasm Resources Information Network, September 2011 version. Available online at https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomyquery.aspx.
GRIN Taxonomy for Plants: U.S. National Plant Germplasm Resources Information Network, September 2011 version. Available online at https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomyquery.aspx.
GRIN Taxonomy for Plants: U.S. National Plant Germplasm Resources Information Network, September 2011 version. Available online at https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomyquery.aspx.
Karlsson (2004-03-19 00:00:00) Förteckning över svenska kärlväxter
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>
SN2000/Takhtajan, 1997
Van der Meijden, R. (2005)
WoRMS (Mar 2013)
WoRMS (Mar 2013)
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