Etymology |
From latin albescens: "to grow white" |
Description: |
Chenopodium albescens Small. Annual, pale green. Stems erect, 8-12 dm. tall, relatively stout, mealy when young, prominently pale-ridged: leaf-blades mainly ovate, some of the upper ones narrower, 2-4 cm long, sharply acute or minutely bristle-tipped, nearly all angulately lobed or toothed, permanently mealy at least beneath, 3-nerved, cuneate at the base, slender-petioled: flower-clusters continuous or becoming interrupted, relatively slender, whitish: sepals mealy, ovate, barely keeled: utricle depressed, 1-1.5 mm. broad, included: seed horizontal, black, shining, free from the pericarp. -Small
Chenopodium albescens is poorly known and needs taxonomic work. |
Distribution: |
USA: Mainly Texas
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Type: |
A. A. Heller 1894: NY 324306 |
Website Info: |
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Habitat and Plant Images
Type Specimen
NY 324306
Heller: June 26-30 1894
Isotypes:
Heller: June 26-30 1894
Specimens:
Palmer 10207
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BRIT
Dryden 48510 |
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BRIT
Henderson 63-593 |
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Cory 9849 |
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Palmer 33838 |
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NY
Gust. Jermy. June 1904 |
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US 501781
Ruth 121 |
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SRSC
Warnock 10516 |
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SRSC
Warnock 14808 |
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Warnock 15274 |
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TEX 413206
Paredez 101 |
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