Kochia californica
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 17: 378. 1882.
Endemic
Synonyms: Bassia californica (S. Watson) A. J. Scott Kochia americana var. californica (S. Watson) M. E. Jones
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Plants brownish, brownish green, or grayish green, 10–60 cm, densely tomentose. Stems erect (rarely ascending), branched throughout; branches arcuate, ascending or spreading. Leaves usually remote, not overlapping, sessile; blade narrowly ovate, lanceolate, or oblong-linear, flattened, 3–20 × 1.5–3.5 mm, sericeous. Inflorescences spicate, or primary-axis paniculately branched; 1–4 (–5) -flowered in axils of bracts. Perianth segments densely tomentose or almost glabrate.
Phenology: Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat: Alkaline soils, deserts, semideserts, eroded mountain slopes, other marginal habitats
Elevation: 0-1500 m
Discussion
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rounded +
slippery +
truncate +
woody +
sericeous +
leaflike +
absent +
1;5 +
monomorphic +
connate +
dimorphic +
absent +
alternate +
arcuate +
coiled +
curved +
developing +
annular +
large +
storage +
common +
white +
clustered +
bisexual +
mature +
spicate +
flattened;semiterete +
sessile +
not overlapping +
remote +
connate +
attached +
campylotropous +
imbricate +
absent +
inconspicuous +
accrescent +
fleshy +
mottled +
membranous +
copious +
absent +
absent +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. +
1882 +
fusiform +
thickened +
scurfy +
inflated +
brown +
wedge--shaped +
Endemic +
cylindric +
absent +
branched +
stellate +
erect +
silvery +
not fleshy +
lacking +
reduced;small +
fleshy +
1;3 +
prickly +
variable +
indistinct +
shiny +
verrucate +
Kochia californica +
Kochia sect. Neokochia +
species +
obscure +
fleshy +
tomentose +
horizontal +
tomentose +
scarious +