Atriplex torreyi var. torreyi
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 378.
Plants mainly 8–20 dm, and as wide or wider; twigs stout or slender, striately angled, sometimes bluntly spiny. Petiole 2–4 mm. Pistillate flowers borne in panicles 5–20+ cm. Fruiting bracteoles orbiculate to subreniform, mainly 1.3–3.8 × 2–4.6 mm. Seeds 1–1.7 mm wide.
Phenology: Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat: Mesquite, creosote bush, greasewood, rabbitbrush, shadscale, saltgrass, saltbush, and blackbrush communities, mainly in saline substrates
Elevation: 500-2000 m
Distribution
Ariz., Calif., Nev., Utah.
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
"broad" is not a number."wide" is not a number."dm" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.
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apiculate +
inconspicuous +
lacking +
spicate +
slippery +
entire +
greenish;grayish +
absent +
1;5 +
foliaceous +
connate +
dimorphic +
absent +
angled +
3-5-parted +
coiled +
curved +
developing +
annular +
large +
storage +
common +
white +
pistillate +
clustered +
yellow +
appendaged +
mature +
enlarged +
thickened +
Mesquite, creosote bush, greasewood, rabbitbrush, shadscale, saltgrass, saltbush, and blackbrush communities, mainly in saline substrates +
bladderlike +
alternate +
persistent +
crenate +
united +
connate +
attached +
campylotropous +
once-branched +
lacking +
imbricate +
absent +
inconspicuous +
accrescent +
fleshy +
(1-)3-5-lobed +
mottled +
free +
absent +
naked +
absent +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
1874 +
fusiform +
thickened +
scurfy +
inflated +
brown +
erect +
flattened +
Endemic +
cylindric +
absent +
jointed +
stellate +
silvery +
succulent +
lacking +
reduced;small +
fleshy +
1;3 +
prickly +
variable +
indistinct +
shiny +
verrucate +
Atriplex torreyi var. torreyi +
Atriplex torreyi +
variety +
elongate +
tuberculate +
angled +
kranz-type +
dicotyledonous +
normal +
silvery +
scurfy +
sessile +
compressed;orbiculate +
dioecious +
woody +