Chenopodium sandersii Benet-Pierce
Madroño 66: 69. 2019.
Etymology |
In honor of Andrew Sanders, Southern California botanist and prolific collector of Chenopodium. |
Description: |
Erect large size plant, weak branched or occ. one stem, ~5-7 dm high, yellowish green. Leaf blades lance-ovate ~3.5 to 2 cm long by 1.2 (1.5) to 1 cm wide, with basal lobes, base cuneate and apex obtuse or acute, entire. Upper blades, elliptic, ~2-1 cm long by ~ .7 cm wide, base cuneate and apex acute. Inflorescences are terminal and axillary panicles of glomerate spikes ~ 45 cm., with sessile flowers ca. 1 mm in diameter. Fruits conical below, with flatish cone tip, ≤ 1 mm by ≤.6 mm wide, with acute equatorial margin. Pericarp semi-adherent, weak, often lost below at the center of the cone or almost completely, with dark yellow to brown faint color lines. |
Distribution: |
California: Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties. |
Synonyms: |
Chenopodium hians Standl. |
Type: |
White 1852: UCR 100144 |
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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Habitat and Field Images
Type Specimen:
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Specimens:
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  UCR 83371     RSA 628598 |
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UCR 81809 |
Sanders 40837
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Munz 12728
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Wheeler 10731
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SD 230205
SDSU 23093
Benet-Pierce 921
  SDSU 23100 Benet-Pierce 914 |
  SDSU 23103 Benet-Pierce 910 |
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Benet-Pierce 887
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USA: California, San Bernardino Co., 34.195 -117.0925 1890 meters
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USA: California, Los Angeles Co.
UCR 194600
Swinney 6909
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SDSU 22994
Benet-Pierce 885
SDSU 22998
Benet-Pierce 888
SDSU 22999
Benet-Pierce 889
SDSU 23065
Benet-Pierce 890
SDSU 23078
Benet-Pierce 939
SDSU 23096
Benet-Pierce 915
RSA 603814
S. Boyd 10030, 10 Sep 1997 (RSA603814)
USA: California, Los Angeles County, Liebre Mountains Region: High point of Liebre Mountain near old radio tower site, at divide between Horse Camp Canyon and Castaic Creek watershed.
34.71889, -118.66889, 5720 feet
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RSA 740774 |
UCR 113097 |
SDSU 22996 Benet-Pierce 886 |
UCR 193972 |
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RSA 183967 |
UCR 79993 |
NY 3346737 |
WTU 76864 |
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SDSU 23097 Benet-Pierce 922 |
SDSU 23105 Benet-Pierce 909 |
SDSU 25782 Benet-Pierce 891 |
SDSU Benet-Pierce 892 |
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NY 3346730 Munz 7659 |
RSA 729757 Swinney 7527 |
UCR 162855 White 1783A |