Atriplex lindleyi

Moquin-Tandon in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle

in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 100. 1849.

Common names: Lindley’s saltbush
Basionym: Atriplex halimoides Lindley
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 342. Mentioned on page 325.
Revision as of 17:29, 18 September 2019 by FNA>Volume Importer

Herbs, erect or suffrutescent perennial, 1.5–4 dm, woody at base. Stems terete, finely white-mealy when young. Leaves alternate, petiolate proximally, becoming sessile distally, crowded; blade oblanceolate or proximal rhombic, 10–20(–30) × 3–15 mm, base cuneate or attenuate, margin entire to repand-denticulate, apex acute to obtuse, scurfy. Staminate flowers in axillary glomerules, in short axillary spikes or terminal spikes. Pistillate flowers axillary, solitary or few and clustered below staminate. Fruiting bracteoles sessile, bordered by narrow horizontal wing or acutely angled, broadly turbinate or hemispheric, united except at minute apical tips, 6–12 mm, spongy and inflated at maturity, flattened at summit. Seeds dimorphic: dark reddish brown, 1.5 mm wide, or black, slightly smaller; radicle basal, horizontal.


Habitat: Sparingly escaped from cultivation

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Stanley L. Welsh +
Moquin-Tandon in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle +
Atriplex halimoides +
Lindley’s saltbush +
Calif. +  and Australia. +
Sparingly escaped from cultivation +
in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. +
Atriplex unranked Halimoides +
Atriplex lindleyi +
Atriplex sect. Spongiocarpus +
species +