Atriplex canescens var. laciniata

Parish in W. L. Jepson

Fl. Calif. 1: 442. 1914.

Common names: Caleb saltbush
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 380. Mentioned on page 376, 379.

Plants mainly 10–20 dm, not spiny. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate, to oblanceolate, often thickened, 12–25 (–30) × 2–5 mm, apex mainly rounded. Pistillate flowers borne in panicles mostly 5–25 cm. Fruiting bracteoles on stipes 0–2 mm, body typically with 4 prominent, laciniate wings extending length of bract, united throughout, 6–10 (–15) × 8–11 (–15) mm, apex toothed, surface of wings and body smooth or reticulate.


Phenology: Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat: Saline flats, bajadas, alluvial fans
Elevation: 60-800 m

Distribution

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Calif., Nev., Mexico (Sonora)

Discussion

Atriplex canescens var. laciniata, also a high polyploid, is supposed to have originated through hybridization of Atriplex canescens with a second chromosomal race of A. polycarpa. It is certainly similar to but has larger and more apparently laciniate bract wings than A. canescens var. macilenta, which arose similarly but purportedly from a different chromosomal race of the same species.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"wide" is not a number."united" is not a number.

wingless +  and winged +
toothed +  and rounded +
Stanley L. Welsh +
Parish in W. L. Jepson +
slippery +
aromatic +
Calligonum canescens +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
linear +  and oblanceolate oblong or obovate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
persistent +  and deciduous +
reddish-brown +, black +, brown +  and green +
3-5-parted +
Caleb saltbush +
Calif. +, Nev. +  and Mexico (Sonora) +
60-800 m +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br />) +
not +  and connate +
enlarged +
Saline flats, bajadas, alluvial fans +
bladderlike +
terminal +  and axillary +
nearly +  and sessile +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
persistent +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
narrowly oblanceolate +  and oblanceolate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
not winged +  and winged +
toothed +  and lobed +
stipitate +  and sessile +
inferior +, half-inferior +  and superior +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +
1 +  and single +
persistent +  and deciduous +
(1-)3-5-lobed +
papery +  and chartaceous +
Flowering spring–fall. +
pointing +  and ascending +
sublateral +  and superior +
bulbous +  and taprooted +
fusiform +
fleshy +  and fibrous +
verrucate +  and striate +
reddish-brown +, brown +  and black +
flattened +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
Weedy +  and Illustrated +
cylindric +
3 +  and 5 +
opposite +  and alternate +
succulent +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
reduced;small +
horizontal +  and vertical +
reticulate +  and smooth +
verrucate +
Atriplex nuttallii +
Atriplex canescens var. laciniata +
Atriplex canescens +
variety +
spicate +  and naked +
spicate +  and naked +
tuberculate +
dicotyledonous +
perennial +  and annual +
monoecious +  and dioecious +
wider +  and wide +
laciniate +
dentate to entire +