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Chenopodium chenopodioides (L.) Aellen

Saltmarsh goosefoot (en), Chénopode à feuilles grasses (fr), Oxybaside faux chénopode (fr), Oxybasis faux chénopode (fr), Épinard-fraise faux chénopode (fr), Chénopode faux chénopode (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Amaranthaceae > Chenopodium

Characteristics

Herbs annual, 20-50 cm tall. Stem erect, much branched, green striate, ribbed, usually not farinose. Leaf blade green abaxially, dark green adaxially, broadly triangular, 3-4 cm, slightly broader than long, ca. 2 × as long as petiole, slightly succulent, glabrous or slightly farinose, base truncate or broadly cuneate, decurrent to base of petiole, margin serrate or subentire, apex obtuse or shortly acuminate. Glomerules arranged in spikelike panicles on branches; central flowers of glomerules bisexual, lateral ones female. Female flowers: perianth obconic, 2-4-lobed, succulent; lobes cochleariform, unequal, abaxially keeled. Bisexual flowers: perianth depressed hemispheric, 4-or 5-parted; stamens as many as perianth segments. Seed vertical in female flowers, horizontal in bisexual flowers, yellow-brown, sublustrous, depressed ovoid, 0.5-0.75 mm in diam., slightly pitted, rim margin obtuse; embryo annular. Fl. and fr. Aug-Sep.
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Stems erect to prostrate, much-branched, 0.1-3.5 dm, glabrous. Leaves nonaromatic; petiole to 0.28 cm; blade deltate or narrowly deltate, 0.8-6 × 0.2-3.5 cm, base cuneate, margins entire or broadly dentate, apex acute to obtuse. Inflorescences lateral glomerules sessile on lateral branched spikes; glomerules subglobose, 3-4 mm diam.; bracts oblanceolate to linear, 0.2-1.5 cm. Flowers: perianth segments 3, connate almost to apex into 0.5-0.8 mm tube; lobes deltate, 0.1-0.5 × 0.3-0.4 mm, membranous, apex acute, flat or occasionally keeled-corniculate, glabrous, green and covering fruit at maturity; stamen 1; stigmas 2, 0.2 mm. Utricles ovoid; pericarp nonadherent, reticulate-punctate. Seeds vertical and horizontal, ovoid, 0.6-0.9 mm diam., margins rounded; seed coat black, smooth.
A herb. It grows 20-50 cm tall. The leaves are broadly triangle shaped and 3-4 cm across.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a subtropical plant.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-7
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-8

Usage

Uses food
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -29
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Chenopodium chenopodioides unspecified picture

Distribution

Chenopodium chenopodioides world distribution map, present in China and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:56083-2
WFO ID wfo-0000601175
COL ID TXBC
BDTFX ID 16790
INPN ID 90711
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Oreobliton chenopodioides Chenopodium chenopodioides Agathophytum humifusum Blitum chenopodioides Chenopodium concatenatum Chenopodium crassifolium Chenopodium humifusum Chenopodium astrachanicum Oxybasis minutiflora Agathophytum crassifolium Blitum botryoides Blitum crassifolium Chenopodium botryoides Chenopodium album subsp. concatenatum Chenopodium chenopodioides var. degenianum Chenopodium chenopodioides var. lengyelianum Chenopodium crassifolium var. degenianum Chenopodium crassifolium var. lengyelianum Blitum polymorphum var. crassifolium Blitum rubrum var. crassifolium Chenopodium rubrum var. botryoides Chenopodium album var. concatenatum Blitum virgatum var. chenopodioides Chenopodium rubrum subsp. crassifolium Blitum chenopodioides var. chenopodioides
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