Etymology |
Named after Paul Carpenter Standley (1884-1963), an American Botanist |
Description: |
Slender erect annual, 3-10 dm. high, simple below, sparsely branched above, the branches very slender, bright-green, divergent; petioles slender, about half as long as the blades; leaf blades very thin, those of the lower leaves broadly triangular-oblong, 3.5-6 cm. long, obtuse, broadly cimeate at the base, sinuate-dentate, those of the upper leaves smaller, lanceolate to oblong or ovate, obtuse or usually acute, entire, bright-green on the upper turface, slightly paler beneath and very finely and sparsely farinose; flowers solitary or in small clusters arranged in very slender, interrupted, very elongate spikes; calyx very sparsely farinose, the lobes obovate-orbicular, bright-green, white-margined, slightly carinate; pericarp free; seed horizontal, 1.3 mm. broad, black, smooth and shining, the margin obtuse. - Standley: Chenopodium Boscianum Moq. Chenop. Enum. 21. 1840. |
Distribution: |
USA: AR, CT, DC, IL, IA, MO, NE, NH, PA, TX, WI |
Synonyms: |
Chenopodium boscianum Moq Chenopodium album var. boscianum Gray Chenopodium berlandierivarboscianum Aellen Chenopodium gigantospermum var. standleyanum Aellen Chenopodium hybridum var. standleyanum (Aellen) Fernald |
Type: |
K 000898486, Drummond 246 |
Website Info: |
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Field Images
Lectotype:
US 688360
Standley 9444
Other type Specimens:
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Drumond 246
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Specimens:
MO 4238257
Bush 11493
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BM Porter 20694 |
GH 460178 Denet 1077 |
GH Bates Aug 8 1909 |
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GH Bissell Aug 20 1900 |
GH Blankinship 1895 |
GH Hartley 9001 |
GH Jones 12857 |
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GH Pease 16630 |
ID 144021 Phillipe 40017 |
K 130 Bush 11456 |
K 131 Pammel 96 |
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K 132 Aellen 4-30-1931 |
MO 1078405 Bush 14286 |
MO 1755209 Steyermark 76935 |
MO 1909310 Croat 4009 |
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MO 1957260 William Trelease 814 |
MO 1957622 Tracy 9-23-1886 |
MO 2585348 Muehlenbach 3667 |
MO 3785871 Summers 3790 |
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MO 4238506 Ladd 13315 |
MO 4293998 Taylor 5607 |
MO 46078 Bush 492 |
MO 4796510 Yatskievych |
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MO 5119886 Bush 4082 |
MO 5610176 Laatsch 9851 |
MO 5789122 Laatsch 9-7-2001 |
MO 822553 Bush 10-6-1917 |
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MO 823928 Bush 8187 |
MO 824384 Bush 9-18-1917 |
MO 853724 Hoffman 10-10-1916 |
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NY Churchill 12349 |
NY Coulter 2867 |
NY Hedge |
NY Parmel 11 1926 |
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NY Porter |
PAC 74272 Demaree 59207 |
TEX-LL 00039955 Killian 6851 |
UC 1434039 R.C. Cross 18321 |