Chenopodium cycloides A. Nelson 
Bot. Gaz. 34: 363. 1902.

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Etymology	From the Greek "kyklos": circle, ring, refering to the united sepals encircling the fruit.
Description:	Annual, about 4 dm high, stoutish, divergently branched from near the base, nearly glabrous: leaves narrowly linear (the early ones wanting), 5-25mm long, scattered on the branches or more crowded on slender branch- lets, lightly scurfy on both sides: sepals 5, not scurfy, mem- branous, at maturity somewhat united and spreading, simulating a rotate wing about the large brown depressed or lenticular fruit: pericarp thin, close-fitting, transparent: seed more than 1mm broad, embryo annular - A. Nelson
Distribution:	USA: NM, KA, TX
Synonyms:
Type:	A. S. Hitchcock 435: MO 1957437
Website Info:	We thank all the Herbaria who have very generously have allowed us to display their images. All images with a RED outline were either provided by the linked Herbaria or given us access to their website to obtain such images, or they were scanned while on loan to us. Please see the credits and further information by clicking on the Herbaria acronyms. The specimens’ images without such red outline, were taken by us during our research visits. All fruit and seed images have been taken with the Visionary Digital Microscope System, Dun, Inc. Palmyra, VA by Lee Simpson at San Diego State University. Website development by Lee Simpson. Contact: sdsuherbarium@sdsu.edu

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Holotype:

Isotypes:

US 353166     NY 57009 P 4991946 RM 2237

Specimens:

SRSC TEX-LL 296774

GH 460170 Cory 15992		SRSC Nessmith 66		SRSC Warnock 14660		TEX-LL 39840 Carr 14883

UCR 56295 Worthington 17393		UNM 93760 Sivinsky 3439		UNM 93873 Sivinsky 4090		UNM 93882 Sivinsky 4076

UNM 124786 Sivinsky 7686