View source for Atriplex spinifera

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Atriplex spinifera
|accepted_authority=J. F. Macbride
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. Gray Herb.
|place=53: 11. 1918
|year=1918
}}
|common_names=Spiny saltbush
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Atriplex;Atriplex subg. Pterochiton;Atriplex spinifera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Atriplex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Atriplex subg. Pterochiton]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Atriplex spinifera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 330
|treatment_page=page 377
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> dioecious, erect, intricately much branched, mainly 3–15 dm; branchlets terete, becoming rigid and spinose. <b>Leaves</b> short petiolate to sessile; blade ovate-deltate to elliptic or spatulate, (5–)10–27 mm, entire or subhastate. <b>Staminate</b> flowers borne in small axillary glomerules. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers borne solitary or few in bract axils on short, spinose, lateral branchlets of a paniculate inflorescence. <b>Fruiting</b> bracteoles sessile or nearly so, body globose, connate, constricted below oblong to orbicular wings, 7–15 ×3.5–10 mm, entire or obscurely dentate, faces smooth to sparingly cristate. <b>Seeds</b> reddish brown, 2–2.8 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Xeric saline substrates, with mixed salt desert shrubs
|elevation=30-1300 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Spiny saltbush apparently forms occasional hybrids with phases of <i>Atriplex canescens</i>, as indicated by the presence of wings on some of the fruiting bracteoles.</p>
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name=Atriplex spinifera
|author=
|authority=J. F. Macbride
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Xeric saline substrates, with mixed salt desert shrubs
|elevation=30-1300 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. Gray Herb.
|publication year=1918
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_746.xml
|genus=Atriplex
|subgenus=Atriplex subg. Pterochiton
|species=Atriplex spinifera
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