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Chenopodium neomexicanum Standley
Protologue: North Amer. Flora 21: pp19. 1916

Etymology	The epithet "neomexicanum" is Latin for "from New Mexico" as it occurs there
Description:	Ill-scented erect annual, 6-7 dm. high, simple below, sparsely branched above, the branches slender, strongly ascending, sparsely and very finely farinose, nearly terete, often tinged with red; petioles slender, equaling or only half as long as the blades; leaf-blades deltoid to orbicularovate or rhombic-ovate, 1.5-2.8 cm. long, rounded at the apex and scarcely apiculate, truncate or rounded at the base, subhastate, with low, rounded or acutish lobes, very thin, green and glabrate on the upper surface, sparsely and very finely farinose beneath, the upper blades smaller, often ovate to oblong, entire, acute; flowers in rather large glomerules, these in dense, stout, narrowly paniculate spikes, the inflorescence nearly naked; calyx rather sparsely farinose, cleft to the middle or lower, the lobes rounded-obovate, green, slightly carinate, completely enclosing the fruit; pericarp adherent; seed horizontal, 1.3-1.5 mm. broad, nearly black, shining, puncticulate, the margin obtuse. - Standley
Distribution:	USA: AZ, NM, TX Mexico: CH, SO
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Type:	Metcalf 1413: US 498188
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