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Chenopodium antarcticum (Hook, f.) Hook. f. 1800

Description

Chenopodium antarcticum (Hook, f.) Hook. f. 1800.

- Perennial, prostrate to ascending, richly branched from the base, farinose. Basal leaves with petiole often longer than the blade; blade broadly ovate, up to 4 x 2 cm, deeply lobed, pinnate or bipinnate; bracts dentate to entire. Inflorescences spike-like, bracteate almost to the top, composed of sessile glomerules. Flowers dimorphic; terminal ones with 4-5 tepals, lateral ones with 2-4. Tepals narrow. Seed horizontal in terminal flowers, vertical in lateral ones, broadly ovoid in outline, 0.7-1 mm.

S Sk Lackalänga 1949 (with wool). - Patagonia.

Notes

Published as part of Jonsell, B., Karlsson, 2005, Chenopodiaceae - Fumariaceae (Chenopodium), pp. 4-31 in Flora Nordica 2 on page 29

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Biodiversity

Family
Amaranthaceae
Genus
Chenopodium
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Caryophyllales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
(Hook, f.) Hook. f.
Species
antarcticum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chenopodium antarcticum (Hook, 1800 sec. Jonsell, 2005