Chenopodiaceae |
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Chenopodium album L. subsp. album L. var. microphyllum (BOEN.) AELLEN |
Chenopodium album L. subsp. album L. var. microphyllum (BOEN.) AELLEN |
Chenopodium L. |
C. album L., Sp. PL 219 (1753).r, Annual, 20-150 cm. Leaves 2-8 x 1-5 cm, rhombic, deltoid or ovate-lanceolate, entire or denticulate, the lower often 3-lobed, mealy beneath. Flowers in glomeruli arranged in terminal or axillary spikes, racemes or cymes. Perianth segments with a rounded keel (± sharp when dried) on the back. Pericarp free. Seed obtuse on the margins, nearly smooth with shallow, radial furrows. 1. Leaves broadly rhomboid-deltoid, broadly cuneate at the base, rounded at apex, with mostly rounded teeth subsp. iranicum 1. Leaves rhomboid-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, narrowly cuneate at the base, acute at apex, mostly sharply dentate subsp. album 2. Plants mostly stout, green; leaves ovate-lanceolate, mostly irregularly dentate, the lower teeth longest, irregular towards the apex var. album 2. Plant usually slender, often with a red-striped stem; leaves ovate-rhomboid, often red-margined, regularly dentate, gradually attenuate towards the apex var. microphyllum subsp. album. var. microphyllum (Boenn.) Aellen in Hegi, 111. Fl. Mittel-Eur. ed. 2, 3(2): 651 (1960). Syn: C. album var. microphyllum Boenn., Prodr. Fl. Monast. Westh. 77 (1824). Fl. 5-8. Sandy and stony places. Described from Germany (Westphalia). A2(E) Istanbul: Küçük Çekmece, 30 viii 1937,5. Post! A8 Çoruh: Çoruh river, vii 1947, Heilbronn & Başarman! Eurasia. |