Atriplex wolfii var. wolfii

Common names: Wolf’s orach
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 355.

Stems erect, intricately branched, mostly 1–3.5 (–4.5) dm. Leaves: proximalmost blade linear to linear-lanceolate or linear-elliptic, mainly 5–25 × 1–4 mm, tapering to slender base, densely grayish scurfy. Staminate flowers mainly confined to distal axils. Fruiting bracteoles oblong-cuneate to obovate in profile, (1.8–) 2–2.3 × 1.1–1.5 mm, terminal tooth reduced to mere cusp between larger lateral ones.


Phenology: Flowering summer–fall.
Habitat: Saline areas growing with shadscale, seepweed, Russian thistle, fine-textured substrates
Elevation: 2300 m

Discussion

While H. M. Hall and F. E. Clements (1923) understandably mixed the two varieties in the specimen citations, they were right in recognition of a rather remarkable difference in bract structure.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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subsessile +, sessile +  and monomorphic +
truncate +  and attenuate +
Stanley L. Welsh +
S. Watson +
slippery +
aromatic +
Wolfianae +
concolorous +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
linear +  and narrowly lanceolate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
persistent +  and deciduous +
reddish-brown +, black +, brown +  and green +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (?) +
cuneate +  and ovate or obovate +
not crested +
3-5-parted +
Wolf’s orach +
2300 m +
tuberculate +  and smooth +
rarely +  and lacking +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
not +  and connate +
enlarged +
Saline areas growing with shadscale, seepweed, Russian thistle, fine-textured substrates +
bladderlike +
terminal +  and axillary +
deciduous +  and persistent +
not winged +  and winged +
entire +  and serrate +
lobed +  and serrate-dentate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.27 cm2.7 mm <br />0.0027 m <br />) +
ovate +  and cuneate +
0.11 cm1.1 mm <br />0.0011 m <br /> (0.21 cm2.1 mm <br />0.0021 m <br />) +
inferior +, half-inferior +  and superior +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +
1 +  and single +
persistent +  and deciduous +
(1-)3-5-lobed +
papery +  and chartaceous +
Flowering summer–fall. +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
tapering;linear;linear-lanceolate or linear-elliptic +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
bulbous +  and taprooted +
fusiform +
fleshy +  and fibrous +
verrucate +  and striate +
flattened +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
cylindric +
3 +  and 5 +
opposite +  and alternate +
succulent +
sessile +  and petiolate +
reduced;small +
horizontal +  and vertical +
verrucate +
Obione wolfii +
Atriplex wolfii var. wolfii +
Atriplex wolfii +
variety +
dicotyledonous +
oblong-cuneate;obovate +