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|accepted_name=Suckleya
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=11: 103. 1876
|year=1876
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Suckleya
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Suckleya]]</div></div>
|etymology=For George Suckley, 1830–1869, physician and naturalist
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 260, 322
|treatment_page=page 305
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism reproduction;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> annual, monoecious.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem orientation;stem architecture;stem shape;stem architecture;stem architecture;stem texture"><b>Stems </b>prostrate or ascending, diffusely branched, terete, not jointed or armed, not fleshy.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf arrangement;leaf architecture"><b>Leaves </b>alternate, petiolate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="blade shape;base shape;margin architecture or shape;apex shape;apex shape;trichome shape;trichome architecture">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).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="inflorescence architecture;flower architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>staminate and pistillate flowers in mixed clusters in axils of nearly all leaves.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="flower architecture;perianth segment quantity"><b>Staminate </b>flowers: perianth segments usually 4;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="flower architecture;stamen quantity">stamens usually 4;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="flower architecture;ovary prominence;ovary presence">rudimentary ovary present.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="flower architecture;perianth segment fusion;perianth segment shape"><b>Pistillate </b>flowers: perianth segments becoming marginally connate, 4-lobed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="flower architecture;stigma quantity;stigma shape">stigmas 2, filiform.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="perianth size;perianth shape"><b>Fruits </b>utricles, enclosed by enlarged, compressed perianth;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="pericarp fixation or orientation;pericarp texture">pericarp appressed to seed, thinly membranous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="seed orientation;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>vertical, ovate to triangular-ovate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="seed-coat coloration;seed-coat width;seed-coat texture">seed-coat reddish-brown, thick, membranous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="embryo shape;perisperm position relational">embryo subannular, surrounding perisperm.</span><!--

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|distribution=w North America
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=chu1991a
|text=Chu, G. L., H. C. Stutz, and S. C. Sanderson. 1991. Morphology and taxonomic position of Suckleya suckleyana (Chenopodiaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 78: 63–68.
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name=Suckleya
|author=Chu Gelin
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|distribution=w North America
|reference=chu1991a
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1876
|special status=
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|genus=Suckleya
|apex shape=acute;rounded
|base shape=short-cuneate
|blade shape=rhombic-ovate;suborbicular
|embryo shape=subannular
|flower architecture=pistillate;pistillate;staminate;staminate;staminate;pistillate
|inflorescence architecture=staminate
|leaf architecture=petiolate
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|margin architecture or shape=repand-dentate
|ovary presence=absent
|ovary prominence=rudimentary
|perianth segment fusion=connate
|perianth segment quantity=4
|perianth segment shape=4-lobed
|perianth shape=compressed
|perianth size=enlarged
|pericarp fixation or orientation=appressed
|pericarp texture=membranous
|perisperm position relational=surrounding
|seed orientation=vertical
|seed shape=ovate;triangular-ovate
|seed-coat coloration=reddish-brown
|seed-coat texture=membranous
|seed-coat width=thick
|stamen quantity=4
|stem architecture=armed;not jointed;branched
|stem orientation=ascending;prostrate
|stem shape=terete
|stem texture=not fleshy
|stigma quantity=2
|stigma shape=filiform
|trichome architecture=unicellular
|trichome shape=inflated
|whole_organism duration=annual
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|whole_organism reproduction=monoecious
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