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

Etymology	In honor of botanist Charles Christopher Parry (28 August 1823 – 20 February 1890)
Description:	Ill-scented erect annual, 6-8 dm. high, much branched above, the branches strongly ascending, slender, obtusely angled, pale-greenish, copiously but very finely farinose; petioles slender, equaling or two thirds as long as the blades; leaf-blades broadly rhombic-ovate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, rounded or broadly obtuse at the apex, apiculate, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, entire, or usually with 2 small rounded lobes at the base, very thin, green and glabrate on the upper surface, densely but very finely and closely farinose beneath, the upper blades smaller, entire, obtuse; flowers in small glomerules, these in slender, dense or interrupted, paniculate spikes, the inflorescence ample, open, with slender, nearly naked branches; calyx densely farinose, deeply cleft, the lobes oval or broadly oblong, incompletely enclosing the fruit; pericarp adherent; seed horizontal, 0.7-0.8 mm. broad, dark reddish-brown, shining, nearly smooth, the margin obtuse. -Standley
Distribution:	Mexico: CO, NL, SL, VE
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Type:	Parry and Palmer 780: US 48299
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