Chenopodium nevadense Standley 
N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 21: 16. 1916.

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Etymology	Of or from Nevada
Description:	Erect annual, 2.5-3 dm. high, much branched, the branches subdichotomous, ascending, stout below, slender and flexuous above, bright-green, slightly striate; petioles rather stout, half as long as the blades or sometimes longer; leaf-blades rhombic-ovate to ovate-oblong, 1.2-2 cm. long, obtuse or rounded at the apex, not cuspidate, narrowly or broadly cuneate at the base, entire or obscurely hastate, the lobes spreading, thick and fleshy, bright-green, very obscurely farinose, even when young, the upper blades little reduced but narrower, mostly oblong; glomerules of flowers very small, loosely cymose-paniculate, the branches dichotomous or subgeniculate ; calyx rather copiously and closely farinose, the lobes oval or ovate, acute or obtuse, slightly carinate, completely enclosing the fruit; pericarp closely adherent; seed 0.5-0.6 mm. broad, the margin obtuse. -Standley Fruits oblate with one edge reduced; pericarp adherent, papillate, and whitish.
Distribution:	USA: CA, NV
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Type:	Kennedy 1993: US 692766
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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Specimens:

US 692766 DS 16386

NY 537176 GH

Jones 2502 I

MO 995077 UCR 218072

CAS 388734 Raven 7049

CAS 637519 Howell 40247

CAS 637524 DeDecker 2701

CDA 0023389 Dana 7-14-1960

DS 741032 Burch 207

DS 741035 Burch 236

SDSU 20807 Benet-Pierce 504

SDSU 20813 Benet-Pierce 510

UCR 110343 DeDecker 5760

NY 537155 Tiehm 7591