Chenopodium simpsonii Benet-Pierce
Madroño 66: 70 (2019)
Etymology: |
Named in honor of Southern California Botanist, Taxonomist, and Professor of Botany at SDSU, Michael G. Simpson (1953- ) |
Description: |
Erect annual, ~7 dm high, branched, side branches weak. Leaf blades petiolate, narrowly lanceolate, ~ 2 cm long by ≤ 1 cm wide, base cuneate and apex acute, rarely lobed, entire. Upper blades narrowly elliptic, ~2 cm long by ~ .4 cm wide, apex and base acute. Inflorescences are terminal and axillary panicles of glomerate spikes, ~ 25 cm. with sessile flowers ca. 1 mm in diameter. Fruits oblate to occ conical ≤ 1.2 mm by ~ .6 mm wide, with round or occ acute equatorial margin. Pericarp adherent, thick, brown with a pattern of alternating faint reddish or yellow lines, from the center to the margin. Pericarp starts with lines that become faint as it ages. |
Distribution: |
California: Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties. |
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Synonyms: |
None. |
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Type: |
Sanders 14159, 31 July 1993 (UCR-132956) |
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Website Info: |
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Distribution of examined specimens:
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Type specimen:
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Sanders 14159, 31 July 1993 (UCR-132956)
USA: California, San Bernardino Co., Mill Creek Canyon, Forest Service Road 1N12 (toward Morton Peak and Warm Spring Canyon), 0.1-0.25 mile above Mill Creek Road
34.10639 -117.02889, 1006 meters elevation
Exemplar specimens:
SDSU 26515
Benet-Pierce 999
SDSU 25434
Benet-Pierce 943
SDSU 26434
Benet-Pierce 981
SDSU 26429
Benet-Pierce 976
SDSU 26443
Benet-Pierce 991
SDSU 26475
Benet-Pierce 1025
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SDSU 26450 Benet-Pierce 998 |
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S. M. Leininger 274, 12 July 2008 (SD257942)
USA: California, San Diego Co., Palomar Mountain, 33.31135, -116.8631 1596 meters elevation
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Swinney 11333, 22 July 2009
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Gander 6808, 20 Sep 1938 (SD22874)
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A.C. Sanders 35755, 11 July 2008 (UCR-193752)
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Sharon Dougherty s.n., 18 Sept 1997 (UCR-132651)
USA: California, Los Angeles County, San Gabriel Mtns., Kratka Ridge, Angeles National Forest)
34.35167, -117.89833, 2073 meters [Note: longitude entered incorrectly on label; -47˚ changed to -117˚]
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J. Rebman 20327, 15 Aug 2010 (SD209644)
USA: California, San Diego, Southwest of Combs Peak: canyon off of Chihuahua/Lost Valley Road just northwest of Sky Oaks Field Station
33.38207 -116.62718, 1405 meters
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F. F. Gander 4465, 16 Sep 1937 (SD18748)
USA: California, San Diego Co., Pine Valley, 32.83589, -116.53068
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Wahl 21753, 26 Aug 1966
USA: California, Los Angeles County, 15 miles w. of Big Pines, 5600 feet elevation
   SD 156375    UCR 156331 |
SDSU 19739
Benet-Pierce 938
SDSU 23064
Benet-Pierce 895
SDSU 25430
Benet-Pierce 944
SDSU 25433
Benet-Pierce 949
SDSU 25481
Benet-Pierce 964
SDSU 26430
Benet-Pierce 977
SDSU 26435
Benet-Pierce 982
SDSU 26436
Benet-Pierce 984
SDSU 26439
Benet-Pierce 987
SDSU 26477
Benet-Pierce 1027
SDSU
Benet-Pierce 983
SDSU 24582
Jellen 1387
Jellen 1394
Jellen 1395-A
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Benet-Pierce 539 |
Benet-Pierce 541 |
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H.A. Wahl 29184, 19 Sep 1966 USA: California, San Diego Co., 2 mi. nw of Pine Valley ARIZ182549 |
F.R. Fosberg 4977, 12 Jun 1931 USA: California, Los Angeles Co. near Big Rock-Bear Creek divide RSA423258 |
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SDSU 23076 |
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SDSU 23079 |
DS 83954 (Right Only) |
SDSU 22997 Benet-Pierce 887 |
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SDSU 23070 Benet-Pierce 898 |
SDSU 23090 Benet-Pierce 918 |
SDSU 25195 Jellen 101219-5 A |
SDSU 25429 Benet-Pierce 942 |
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SDSU 26431 Benet-Pierce 978 |
SDSU 26474 Benet-Pierce 1024 |
SDSU 26495 Benet-Pierce 1047 |
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