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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Suaeda esteroa
|accepted_authority=Ferren & S. A. Whitmore
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Madroño
|place=30: 182, fig. 1. 1983
|year=1983
}}
|common_names=Estuary sea-blite
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Suaeda;Suaeda sect. Brezia;Suaeda esteroa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Suaeda]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Suaeda sect. Brezia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Suaeda esteroa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 392
|treatment_page=page 394
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism duration;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism growth form;whole_organism duration;whole_organism duration;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism coloration;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs </b>or subshrubs, annual or usually perennial, yellow-green, green, or occasionally reddish, 1–6 dm, glaucous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem coloration;stem architecture;stem texture"><b>Stems </b>decumbent to erect, straw colored, branched, often woody at base, often with exfoliations;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="branch orientation">branches usually ascending.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf orientation;leaf arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>ascending, imbricate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade coloration;blade coloration;blade shape;adaxial surface prominence or shape;adaxial surface length;adaxial surface width;base shape;apex shape">blade green or reddish, linear-lanceolate, adaxial surface flat, 10–60 × 0.5–2.5 mm, base not narrowed, apex acute;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="proximal leaf life cycle;proximal leaf duration;proximal leaf duration;proximal leaf coloration">proximal leaves usually withered, persistent or breaking apart into fibers, straw colored.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="spike density;spike atypical some measurement;spike some measurement;spike architecture"><b>Glomes </b>in dense, mostly (2–) 5–20 cm compound spikes;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="glome architecture">(1–) 3–5-flowered;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="bract size;bract some measurement;bract width">bracts smaller than leaves, 5–20 mm, usually widest at base.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="flower reproduction"><b>Flowers </b>bisexual;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="perianth architecture;perianth architecture;perianth diameter;perianth diameter">perianth zygomorphic or irregular (one segment usually larger), 1.5–3 (–3.5) mm diam.;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="perianth segment shape;perianth segment shape;perianth segment architecture">perianth segments abaxially rounded and keeled and distally hooded;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="stigma atypical quantity;stigma quantity">stigmas (2–) 3.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>dimorphic;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="seed-coat diameter;seed-coat coloration;seed-coat architecture or coloration or relief;seed-coat reflectance">lenticular, 1–1.3 mm diam., with seed-coat black to reddish-brown, obscurely reticulate, shiny;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="seed growth form;seed shape;seed diameter;seed prominence or shape;seed some measurement;seed-coat coloration;seed-coat reflectance">or flat, 1.2–2 mm, with seed-coat brown, dull.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Coastal salt marshes
|elevation=1-2 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California)
|tables=
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name=Suaeda esteroa
|authority=Ferren & S. A. Whitmore
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Coastal salt marshes
|elevation=1-2 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California)
|reference=None
|publication title=Madroño
|publication year=1983
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V4/V4_779.xml
|genus=Suaeda
|section=Suaeda sect. Brezia
|species=Suaeda esteroa
|adaxial surface length=10mm;60mm
|adaxial surface prominence or shape=flat
|adaxial surface width=0.5mm;2.5mm
|apex shape=acute
|base shape=not narrowed
|blade coloration=reddish;green
|blade shape=linear-lanceolate
|bract size=smaller
|bract some measurement=5mm;20mm
|bract width=widest
|branch orientation=ascending
|flower reproduction=bisexual
|glome architecture=(1-)3-5-flowered
|leaf arrangement=imbricate
|leaf orientation=ascending
|perianth architecture=irregular;zygomorphic
|perianth diameter=1.5mm;3mm
|perianth segment architecture=hooded
|perianth segment shape=keeled;rounded
|proximal leaf coloration=straw colored
|proximal leaf duration=breaking apart into fibers;persistent
|proximal leaf life cycle=withered
|seed diameter=1mm;1.3mm
|seed growth form=dimorphic
|seed prominence or shape=flat
|seed shape=lenticular
|seed some measurement=1.2mm;2mm
|seed-coat architecture or coloration or relief=reticulate
|seed-coat coloration=brown;black;reddish-brown
|seed-coat diameter=1mm;1.3mm
|seed-coat reflectance=dull;shiny
|spike architecture=compound
|spike atypical some measurement=2cm;5cm
|spike density=dense
|spike some measurement=5cm;20cm
|stem architecture=branched
|stem coloration=straw colored
|stem orientation=decumbent;erect
|stem texture=woody
|stigma atypical quantity=2;3
|stigma quantity=3
|whole_organism coloration=reddish;green;reddish;green;yellow-green;reddish;green;reddish;green;yellow-green
|whole_organism duration=perennial;annual;perennial;annual
|whole_organism growth form=subshrub;herb
|whole_organism pubescence=glaucous;glaucous
|whole_organism some measurement=1dm;6dm
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