familyChenopodiaceae
genusChenopodium
subgenusChenopodium subg. Chenopodium
subsectionChenopodium subsect. Leptophylla
Chenopodium subsect. Leptophylla
Novon 6: 400. 1996.
Basionym: Leptophylla Standley in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 21: 14. 1916
Leaf-blades linear or linear-lanceolate, occasionally narrowly oblong-ovate or triangular (C. atrovirens), thick, margins entire or with pair of basal teeth or lobes, farinose or rarely glabrous. Inflorescences glomerules on terminal and axillary panicles. Seeds with margins rounded or acute; seed-coat smooth, rugulate, or warty.
Discussion
Species 9 (9 in the flora).
Selected References
Lower Taxa
"narrower" is not a number.
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dense +
slippery +
acute to truncate +
not jointed +
not spinose +
leaflike +
absent +
1;5 +
monomorphic +
connate +
dimorphic +
absent +
North America +
coiled +
curved +
developing +
large +
storage +
common +
white +
clustered +
bisexual +
mature +
small white +
inflated +
spicate +
farinose +
triangular;oblong-ovate;linear-lanceolate;linear;triangular;oblong-ovate;linear-lanceolate;linear +
thick +
alternate +
not fleshy +
connate +
superior +
attached +
campylotropous +
imbricate +
connate +
absent +
inconspicuous +
accrescent +
fleshy +
infolded +
mottled +
surrounding +
farinaceous +
copious +
absent +
absent +
Novon +
1996 +
centrifugal +
inferior +
fusiform +
thickened +
scurfy +
inflated +
horizontal +
cylindric +
not imbricate +
absent +
absent +
stellate +
silvery +
not fleshy +
filiform +
lacking +
reduced;small +
fleshy +
absent +
prickly +
variable +
indistinct +
shiny +
verrucate +
Chenopodium subsect. Leptophylla +
Chenopodium sect. Chenopodium +
subsection +
annual +
not imbricate +
absent +