View source for Atriplex hymenelytra

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|accepted_name=Atriplex hymenelytra
|accepted_authority=(Torrey) S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=9: 129. 1874
|year=1874
}}
|common_names=Desert holly
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Obione hymenelytra
|authority=Torrey
|publication_title=in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|publication_place=4(5): 119. 1857
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Atriplex;Atriplex subg. Pterochiton;Atriplex hymenelytra
|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 hymenelytra]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 330, 369, 371
|treatment_page=page 376
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> dioecious, 3–15+ dm, as wide, unarmed. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, alternate, petiolate; blade greenish to silvery white, orbiculate to reniform or oval, 10–40 mm, as wide or wider, prominently dentate, teeth to 10 mm, permanently scurfy. <b>Staminate</b> flowers yellow to purple-brown, in clusters 3–4 mm thick, borne in panicles to 3 cm. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers borne in inflorescences similar to staminate ones. <b>Fruiting</b> bracteoles sessile, rather prominently veined, orbiculate to reniform, strongly compressed, 7–10 × 7–10 mm, thin, united at base, margin entire to crenate, glabrous, lacking processes. <b>Seeds</b> brown, 2 mm wide; radicle sublateral. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Warm desert shrub, on dry saline alluvial fans and hills
|elevation=80-1200 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah.
|discussion=<p><i>Atriplex hymenelytra</i> occurs with saltbush, <i>Larrea</i>-<i>Ambrosia</i>, ephedra, and yucca. This is a handsome, rounded shrub with silvery white foliage, sometimes contrasting strongly with the peculiar substrates on which it grows. Its relationships to other of the southwestern species are recondite, but possibly it is allied to <i>A. confertifolia</i>, with which C. A. Hanson (1962) suggested an affinity.</p>
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name=Atriplex hymenelytra
|author=
|authority=(Torrey) S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Obione hymenelytra
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Warm desert shrub, on dry saline alluvial fans and hills
|elevation=80-1200 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1874
|special status=
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|genus=Atriplex
|subgenus=Atriplex subg. Pterochiton
|species=Atriplex hymenelytra
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