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Atriplex sect. Dialysex
Chenop. Monogr. Enum., 64. 1840.
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.
Lower Taxa
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inconspicuous +
lacking +
slippery +
entire +
absent +
1;5 +
foliaceous +
united +
dimorphic +
middle +
enclosing +
absent +
3-5-parted +
coiled +
curved +
developing +
annular +
large +
storage +
common +
white +
pistillate +
clustered +
dimorphic +
appendaged +
mature +
enlarged +
thickened +
bladderlike +
true +
kranz-type +
connate +
attached +
campylotropous +
lacking +
imbricate +
absent +
inconspicuous +
accrescent +
fleshy +
(1-)3-5-lobed +
mottled +
free +
absent +
naked +
absent +
Chenop. Monogr. Enum., +
1840 +
spreading +
lateral +
fusiform +
thickened +
scurfy +
inflated +
erect +
flattened +
cylindric +
absent +
jointed +
stellate +
silvery +
succulent +
lacking +
reduced;small +
fleshy +
1;3 +
prickly +
variable +
indistinct +
shiny +
verrucate +
Atriplex sect. Dialysex +
Atriplex subg. Atriplex +
section +
spicate +
elongate +
kranz-type +
dicotyledonous +
normal +
silvery +
scurfy +
perennial +
variously prostrate;ascending +