Suckleya

A. Gray

Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 11: 103. 1876.

Etymology: For George Suckley, 1830–1869, physician and naturalist
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 305. Mentioned on page 260, 322.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA4 P51 Suckleya suckleyana.jpegSuckleya suckleyana
Grayia spinosa
Krascheninnikovia lanata
Bee F. Gunn
Bee F. Gunn
Bee F. Gunn

Herbs, annual, monoecious. Stems prostrate or ascending, diffusely branched, terete, not jointed or armed, not fleshy. Leaves alternate, petiolate; blade rhombic-ovate to suborbicular, base abruptly short-cuneate, margins repand-dentate, apex rounded or acute, sparsely covered with inflated unicellular trichomes (scurfy when dry). Inflorescences staminate and pistillate flowers in mixed clusters in axils of nearly all leaves. Staminate flowers: perianth segments usually 4; stamens usually 4; rudimentary ovary present. Pistillate flowers: perianth segments becoming marginally connate, 4-lobed; stigmas 2, filiform. Fruits utricles, enclosed by enlarged, compressed perianth; pericarp appressed to seed, thinly membranous. Seeds vertical, ovate to triangular-ovate; seed-coat reddish-brown, thick, membranous; embryo subannular, surrounding perisperm.

Distribution

w North America

Discussion

Species 1.

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acute +  and rounded +
Chu Gelin +
A. Gray +
slippery +
aromatic +
short-cuneate +
rhombic-ovate +  and suborbicular +
persistent +  and deciduous +
reddish-brown +, black +, brown +  and green +
w North America +
subannular +
For George Suckley, 1830–1869, physician and naturalist +
pistillate +  and staminate +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
not winged +  and winged +
lobed +  and serrate-dentate +
inferior +, half-inferior +  and superior +
rudimentary +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +
1 +  and single +
persistent +  and deciduous +
compressed +
nonadherent +  and adherent +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
pointing +  and ascending +
basal +, median +  and position +
chu1991a +
bulbous +  and taprooted +
fusiform +
fleshy +  and fibrous +
reddish-brown +
verrucate +  and striate +
reddish-brown +, brown +  and black +
ovate +  and triangular-ovate +
cylindric +
armed +, not jointed +  and branched +
opposite +  and alternate +
ascending +  and prostrate +
not fleshy +
filiform +
sessile +  and petiolate +
reduced;small +
horizontal +  and vertical +
verrucate +
Suckleya +
Chenopodiaceae +