Atriplex sect. Phyllostegiae

(Standley) S. L. Welsh

Rhodora 102: 424. 2001.

Basionym: Phyllostegiae Standley in N. L. Britton e t al., N. Amer. Fl. 21: 69. 1916
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 367. Mentioned on page 327.

Plants annual, monoecious or subdioecious, sparsely glabrate. Leaves with Kranz anatomy, mostly alternate, petiolate; blade oval to ovate, variously rhombic-triangular or lanceolate, entire or subhastate. Staminate flowers in axillary glomerules or in naked terminal spikes. Fruiting bracteoles sessile or stipitate, sharply hastate and often sharply cristate as well, united to beyond middle, enclosed pistillate flower lacking perianth. Seeds: radicle superior.

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

None.

Stanley L. Welsh +
(Standley) S. L. Welsh +
slippery +
aromatic +
Phyllostegiae +
stipitate +  and sessile +
oval +  and ovate variously rhombic-triangular or lanceolate entire or subhastate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
reddish-brown +, black +, brown +  and green +
cuneate +  and ovate or obovate +
not +  and crested +
3-5-parted +
rarely +  and lacking +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
not +  and connate +
enlarged +
bladderlike +
terminal +  and axillary +
deciduous +  and persistent +
not winged +  and winged +
entire +  and serrate +
lobed +  and serrate-dentate +
inferior +, half-inferior +  and superior +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +
1 +  and single +
persistent +  and deciduous +
(1-)3-5-lobed +
papery +  and chartaceous +
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. Obione +
Atriplex sect. Phyllostegiae +
Atriplex subg. Obione +
section +
dicotyledonous +
subdioecious +  and monoecious +