Atriplex sect. Dialysex

Moquin-Tandon

Chenop. Monogr. Enum., 64. 1840.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 343. Mentioned on page 331, 381.
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Plants perennial herbs or shrubs, dioecious or semidioecious. Leaves with Kranz-type anatomy. Pistillate flowers lacking perianth, enclosed by a pair of bracteoles. Bracteoles ovoid to fan-shaped or subcircular, united to about middle, faces lacking tubercles. Seeds erect; radicle lateral.

Distribution

Introduced; rather widely distributed, including North America, Australia

Discussion

Species 14 species (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

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Stanley L. Welsh +
Moquin-Tandon +
slippery +
aromatic +
lobed +  and serrate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
reddish-brown +, black +, brown +  and green +
ovoid +  and fan-shaped or subcircular +
3-5-parted +
rather widely distributed +, including North America +  and Australia +
tuberculate +  and smooth +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
not +  and connate +
enlarged +
bladderlike +
terminal +  and axillary +
opposite +  and alternate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
not winged +  and winged +
entire +  and serrate +
toothed +  and entire +
inferior +, half-inferior +  and superior +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +
1 +  and single +
persistent +  and deciduous +
(1-)3-5-lobed +
papery +  and chartaceous +
Chenop. Monogr. Enum., +
bulbous +  and taprooted +
fusiform +
fleshy +  and fibrous +
verrucate +  and striate +
reddish-brown +, brown +  and black +
flattened +
cylindric +
3 +  and 5 +
opposite +  and alternate +
succulent +
sessile +  and petiolate +
reduced;small +
horizontal +  and vertical +
verrucate +
Atriplex sect. Dialysex +
Atriplex subg. Atriplex +
section +
dicotyledonous +
shrub +, herb +  and plant +
variously prostrate;ascending +
semidioecious +  and dioecious +