Lectotype (designated here):— UKRAINE: Kherson (Херсон in Ukrainian), Kherson Region (KW-001002777!, image of the lectotype available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.kw001002777).

Protologue:—“ad sepis Jaorlik, Balta, Cherson ” [now the Yagorlyk (Ягорлик in Ukrainian) River, a tributary of the Southern Buh, in Odesa (Odessa) Region of Ukraine and in Moldova; the settlement of Yagorlyk (Iagorlîc in Moldovan/Romanian) is located on that river in Iagorlîc District of Moldova; Balta (Балта in Ukrainian) in Balta District, Odesa Region; and Kherson].

Published description (Andrzejowski 1862: 132):—“caule altissimo ramosissimo, ramis divaricatis, foliis subuniformibus, oblongo-rhombeo-hastatis, subdentatis, summis subintegerrimis, paniculae patentissimae, cymis subaphyllis, glomerulis minimis sessilibus, seminibus nitidis foveolatis; 4–5 pedale, sordide-virens”.

Labels (KW-001002777):—(Label 1) “ Chenopodium divaricatum mihi. Cherson 1823”.(Label2)“ Ch.divaricatum Nob. caulibus ramosiss. patentiss. foliis oblongo-hastatis [the word rhombeo - added above oblongo-hastatis] dentatis, summis subintegerrimis linearis, glomer. sessilibus, racemis paucifoliis paniculatis, sem. nitidis subfoveolatis. Chers. 1823. Hbr. Andrz.”

Another specimen (KW-001002778!, image available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen. kw001002778) has the following label: “ Ch. divaricatum Nob.! sem. nitida excavato punct. Cherson ad vias in ipsae urbe descendendo ad portum 1823”.