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Chenopodium flabellifolium Standley
North Amer. Flora 21: pp19. 1916

Etymology	From the Latin flabellum=fan and folium= leaf. From having fan-shaped leaves. that deviate somewhat from the usual goose-foot shape leaf of other Chenopodium species
Description:	Plants very slender, 3 dm. high, much branched from the base, the branches ascending, terete, stramineous, finely and rather sparsely farinose; petioles very slender, equaling or usually longer than the blades, sometimes twice as long; leaf-blades flabelliform to very broadly rhombic, 4-10 mm. long, 4-12 mm. broad, commonly broader than long, broadly cuneate to truncate at the base, broadly rounded at the apex, mucronulate, entire or very obscurely 3- lobed, the lateral lobes entire or with 2 broad obtuse teeth, the terminal lobe entire or rarely obscurely and remotely dentate, densely and finely puberulent on both surfaces when young, becoming glabrate in age, the uppermost blades smaller and narrower, sometimes acute; flowers in very small glomerules, these in slender, interrupted, simple or narrowly paniculate spikes, the inflorescence nearly naked; calyx deeply 5-cleft, loosely farinose, the lobes broad, rounded at the apex, obscurely carinate, enclosing the fruit; pericarp adherent; seed horizontal, 1 mm. broad, black, lustrous, smooth, the margin acutish. -Standley
Distribution:	Mexico: BC: San Martin Island
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Type:	T.S. Brandegee S.N. March 12 1987
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