Kochia californica
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 17: 378. 1882.
Endemic
Synonyms: Bassia californica (S. Watson) A. J. Scott Kochia americana var. californica (S. Watson) M. E. Jones
Plants brownish, brownish green, or grayish green, 10–60 cm, densely tomentose. Stems erect (rarely ascending), branched throughout; branches arcuate, ascending or spreading. Leaves usually remote, not overlapping, sessile; blade narrowly ovate, lanceolate, or oblong-linear, flattened, 3–20 × 1.5–3.5 mm, sericeous. Inflorescences spicate, or primary-axis paniculately branched; 1–4 (–5) -flowered in axils of bracts. Perianth segments densely tomentose or almost glabrate.
Phenology: Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat: Alkaline soils, deserts, semideserts, eroded mountain slopes, other marginal habitats
Elevation: 0-1500 m
Discussion
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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rounded +
slippery +
truncate +
woody +
sericeous +
leaflike +
absent +
1;5 +
monomorphic +
connate +
dimorphic +
absent +
alternate +
arcuate +
coiled +
curved +
developing +
annular +
large +
storage +
common +
white +
clustered +
bisexual +
mature +
spicate +
flattened;semiterete +
sessile +
not overlapping +
remote +
connate +
attached +
campylotropous +
imbricate +
absent +
inconspicuous +
accrescent +
fleshy +
mottled +
membranous +
copious +
absent +
absent +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. +
1882 +
fusiform +
thickened +
scurfy +
inflated +
brown +
wedge--shaped +
Endemic +
cylindric +
absent +
branched +
stellate +
erect +
silvery +
not fleshy +
lacking +
reduced;small +
fleshy +
1;3 +
prickly +
variable +
indistinct +
shiny +
verrucate +
Kochia californica +
Kochia sect. Neokochia +
species +
obscure +
fleshy +
tomentose +
horizontal +
tomentose +
scarious +