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Chenopodium lenticulare Aellen
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 26: 152 (1929)

Etymology	The epithet "lenticularis" is Latin for the seed "in a shape of a lentil"
Type:	Young 708: US 1104677 U. S. A.: Texas: Austin, 1918, M. S. Young no. 708 (Herb. Wash.); thin soil along rocky ledges and ravines, 2100m, Davis Mountains, Jeff Davis County, 1926, E. J. Palmer no. 31874; wet open ground, flats among foot-hills of Davis Mountains, Jeff Davis County, 1926, E. J. Palmer no. 31986 (beide Herb. Aellen).
Description:	Plant 30-40 cm tall, slender, with no or maybe some odor . Stems erect green finely striated. Leaves glabrous, 2- 2 .5 cm long, 1 - 1.5 cm wide, deltoid, to rhombic, with small basal lobes, upper blades smaller entire, lanceolate or rhombic, apex mucronulate; base of the leaf cuneate. Petiole larger than half of the blade. Leaves the upper parts entire, ovate- lanceolate to broadly -lanceolate. Flowers in large glomerules and these in paniculate spikes. Perianth lobes farinose, calyx narrowly keeled not fully covering the fruit at maturity. Leaf blades deltoid to rhombic-ovate. Pericarp thin, darkish, adherent. Seed 1 - 1.5 mm in diameter, lenticular, very strong margin. Although Aellen says it has no odor, collectors state that it may have odor. -NBP
Distribution:	USA: NM, TX Mexico: COAH
Synonyms:	Chenopodium neomexicanum Standl.
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