Chenopodium aureum

Chenopodium aureum Benet-Pierce
Madroño 66: 66. 2019.


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Etymology
 Meaning gold, gleaming.The adherent pericarp of very tiny papillae golden-beige with some large whitish spots is very shiny. This golden shine gives it its name in latin: aureum.
Description:
 Erect weak reddish annual, usually 4-5 (rarely 8) dm high, sparsely branched from base. Leaf blades trullate and basally lobed ≤ 2 cm long by .5 cm wide, base cuneate and apex acute. Upper leaves are elliptic to lanceolate, c.1.3 cm long by .4 (-.3) cm wide, entire and slightly farinose. Inflorescences are terminal and axillary panicles of glomerate spikes ~ 30 cm. with sessile flowers, ca.1 mm in diameter. Fruits round, lenticular in the side view, ~ 1.2 mm by .5 mm wide, acute equatorial margin with pericarp adherent of very tiny papillae golden-beige with some large whitish spots, very shiny.
Distribution:

California: Inyo, Lassen, Mono, Sierra and Tulare counties. Nevada: Carson City. Idaho: Washington Co.
Synonyms:
  
Type:
 Howell 24151: CAS 342155, G 24151, RSA 44538
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Field Images

Type Specimen:

Howell 24151
Herbarium sheet of
CAS 342155
G 24151
RSA 44538


Specimens:
Herbarium sheet of
NY 652205
(Right specimen only. Top left is Chenopodium nitens)
Herbarium sheet of Seeds of
SDSU 21998
SDSU 22217
Seeds of
Seeds of
Seeds of
Seeds of
Seeds of
Herbarium sheet of Seeds of Seeds of
SDSU 22230
SDSU 23300
Benet-Pierce 850
Herbarium sheet of
CAS 356884


Ferris 8976
Herbarium sheet of
DS 229804
NY 3337062



Herbarium sheet of Seeds of
SDSU 21926
Herbarium sheet of
SDSU 22215
Herbarium sheet of
CAS 226930


Herbarium sheet of
SDSU 22218
Herbarium sheet of
SDSU 22182
Herbarium sheet of
SDSU 22226
Herbarium sheet of
ID 093004
Herbarium sheet of
SDSU 22232
Herbarium sheet of Seeds of
PAC 28264



Munz 14941
Herbarium sheet of Seeds of
RSA 58649
Herbarium sheet of
MO 542896



Herbarium sheet of
Seeds of Seeds of
SDSU 22216
Herbarium sheet of Seeds of
Seeds of Seeds of
CAS 403129
Herbarium sheet of SDSU 22227
Herbarium sheet of CAS 917361
Herbarium sheet of SDSU 21925
   Herbarium sheet of MONT 24463
SDSU 22227
CAS 917361
  
SDSU 21925
   MONT 24463









Website development by Lee Simpson. Contact: sdsuherbarium@sdsu.edu