Chenopodium hians

Chenopodium hians Standl. 
N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 21: 16. 1916.


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Etymology
Gaping
Description:

Ill-scented erect annual, 4-8 dm. high, usually simple at the base, or with a few short slender weak branches, sparsely branched above, the branches stout, erect or nearly so, copiously and coarsely farinose, obscurely and obtusely angled; petioles stout, half as long as the blades or shorter; leaf-blades elliptic-oblong, oblong, or narrowly lance-oblong, 1.2-3 cm. long, 3-8 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the apex, very shortly apiculate, cunéate at the base, green and glabrate on the upper surface, densely and rather coarsely white-farinose beneath, thick, the upper blades sometimes linear; glomerules large, in very stout, dense, erect, axillary or narrowly paniculate spikes; calyx densely farinose, cleft nearly to the base, the lobes roundedoblong or ovate, obtusely carínate, yellowish, tinged with green, erect at maturity and exposing the fruit; pericarp closely adherent; seed horizontal, 0.8-1 mm. broad, black, shining, nearly smooth, the margin obtuse. -Standley

The fruit is small, conical below, with highly patterned pericarp of minute brown and white papillae.

Distribution:

US: AZ, CO, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY, Canada: British Columbia, Yukon Territory

Synonyms:
Chenopodium incognitum Wahl
Type:
Type collected near Dulce, New Mexico, altitude 2150 meters, August 19, 1911, Paul C. Standley
8129 (US 687056).
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Type Specimen:

US 687056 ©
Standley 8129




Specimens:

US 689474
Standley 10764







US 393385
Schuchert 8/22/1899
US 896940
Standley 14088

US 296397
Jones 6015



RM 680333
Hartman 59873

Porter & Porter 9491

GH
UC 221901



PAC 86720
Crawford 483A


RM 317241
Current 544




Makings 2736
UCR 194804
UCR 199228



US 2809557
Barrell 164-64



GH
Kiener 2164



PAC 86980
Crawford 515A


PAC 86981
Crawford 510


Crawford 419A
     
BYU 319305
MO 3666179
NY 990915
RM 392123


Crawford 420A

NY 990913
 

PAC 86725
 

RM 392126
 

BYU 319303


Crawford 474C
RM 392096
PAC 84245


Crawford 553
PAC 86718
RM 398493


Hartman 8111

 
NY 1795673 ©
(Right only)
 
RM 338432
(Left only)


Jones 907
DS 155331 (center)
DS 155332 (left)

Osterhaut 6487
BYU 200774


Porter & Porter 9137

GH 460176
 

TEX-LL 214991
 

UC 246685


Wolfe 258







ASC 44737
Schaak 162
ASC 46657
Ricketson 1966
ASC 84501
Moir 11/24/2006
ASC 46658
Ricketson 1975






 
PAC 86984
Crawford 494A
DS 364448
Bacigalupi 703
COLO 5041 ©
Ramaley 8/24/1912

 
COLO 398350
Root 374





G 72514
Ewan 15606
GH
Porter & Porter 8868
GH
Hooker 1825





 
BABY 8758
B.A. Bennet 13-0583
NY
Clarke 9/21/1895
PAC 27308
Osterhaut 6892
 
UBC 212018
Douglas & Djan-Chekan 15059






PAC 86982
Crawford 507C
PAC 86983
Crawford 500
PAC 86986
Crawford 440C
RM 262457
Finkel


 
COLO 5037
Ramalay 9037
RM 398494
Crawford 512
RM 623013
Evert 8419
 

RM 609096
Evert 7277





   
SD 30137
Shallert
UC 1578060
Sawyer & Ertter 260
  UBC 169519
Selby 8-8-1977
  RM
Hartman 80034






UNM 103805
Tonne 10/9/2002
UNM 106756
Hartman 78450
UNM 119948
McGrath 796
UNM 119949
McGrath 797




   
COLO 5039
Ramaley 10293
RM 398480
Crawford 767
 
RM 680345
Hartman 58846
 
RM 680346
Hartman 58693





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