Atriplex nummularia

Atriplex nummularia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Chenopodiaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Chenopodioideae
Tribus: Chenopodieae (incl. Atripliceae)
Genus: Atriplex
Species: Atriplex nummularia

Subspecies: A. n. subsp. nummularia – A. n. subsp. omissa – A. n. subsp. spathulata

Name

Atriplex nummularia Lindl., J. Exped. Trop. Australia 64. (1848)

• Type: Australia, Subtropical New Holland, 1846, T.L. Mitchell s.n. Lectotype: K (designated by Aellen 1938, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 68(5): 378, first-step); second-step Lectotype (designated by Brignone, Denham & Pozner 2016, Austral. Syst. Bot. 29(5): 343.) K-000898581; Isolectotypes: K-000898580; MEL-607106.

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Atriplex nummularia subsp. eunummularia (Lindl.) Aellen, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 68: 378. (1938), nom. inval.
• Heterotypic (ref. Sukhorukov 2012, Hassler 2018)
  • Atriplex halimoides var. monumentalis Sprenger, Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ortic. 15: 42. (1890)
  • Atriplex nummularia var. monumentalis (Sprenger) Rodigas, Bull D'Arboriculture 1891: 152. (1891)
    • Type: "L'Établissement horticole DAMMANN et Cie de San Giovanni a Teduccio près de Naples, a reçu de Nouvelle-Hollande des graines de l'espèce précitee ... "
  • Atriplex johnstonii C.B.Wolf, Occas. Pap. Rancho Santa Ana Bot. Gard. ser. 1; 1: 3, figs. (1935), as 'johnstoni'
  • Atriplex nummularia subsp. erosa Aellen, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 68: 379. (1938)
    • Type: "Süd-Australien: McDOUAL STUARTS journey of 1859 to the interior of Australia (Kew); Mt. Lyndhurst, 1898 (Kew, Paris, Wien), 1899 (Kew) MAX KOCH."
  • Atriplex asphaltitis Kasapligil, J. Arnold Arbor. 47: 160. (1966)
    • Type: (Israel / Palestine, West Bank), Kale, South of Jericho, near the north shore of the Dead Sea, on dry calcareous salines, c. 390 m below the sea level, 8.12.1954, B. Kasapligil 1656 (UC 1083535). Photo
  • Obione asphaltitis (Kasapligil) G.L.Chu, Gen. New Evol. System World Chenopod. 152. (2017), as 'asphalticus'

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Atriplex nummularia natural distribution Australasia Australia Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales introduced elsewhere References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Lindley, J. 1848. in Mitchell, T.L.: Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in search of a route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria. London. online Reference page. : 64
• Aellen, P. 1938. Revision der australischen und neuseelandischen Chenopodiaceen I: Theleophyton, Atriplex, Morrisiella, Blackiella, Senniella, Pachypharynx. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 68(5): 345–434. Reference page. : 378, 379
• Kasapligil, B. 1966. Additamenta ad floram Jordanicae. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 47(2): 160–170. BHL Reference page. : 160
• Rodigas, E. 1891. Bulletins d'Arboriculture de Floriculture et de Culture Potagere (Belgique): 152, t. 25.
• Sprenger, C. 1890. Bullettino della R. Societa Toscana di Orticultura 15: 42, fig. 3
• Wolf, C.B. 1935. The Playa del Rey saltbush. / Observations on Baccharis pilularis DC. / California plant notes. Occasional Papers [Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden] 1(1). Reference page. : 3–10, figs.
• Zhu, G.L. & Sanderson, S.C. 2017. Genera and a New Evolutionary System of World Chenopodiaceae. 361 pp. Beijing: Science Press. Reference page. : 152

Additional references

• Brignone, N.F., Denham, S.S. & Pozner, R. 2016. Synopsis of the genus Atriplex (Amaranthaceae, Chenopodioideae) for South America. Australian Systematic Botany 29(5): 324–357. DOI: 10.1071/SB16026 Reference page. : 343
• Welsh, S.L.
• eFloras 2008. Atriplex nummularia in Flora of North America. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
• Sukhorukov, A.P. 2012. Taxonomic notes on Dysphania and Atriplex (Chenopodiaceae). Willdenowia 42(2): 169–180. (DOI: 10.3372/wi.42.42202) Reference page. : 178

Links

• Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) 2016. Atriplex nummularia Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian National Botanic Gardens & Australian National Herbarium. Accessed: 2016 Apr. 12.
• Hassler, M. 2018. Atriplex nummularia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Sept. 13. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2016. Atriplex nummularia. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 12 2016.
• The Plant List 2013. Atriplex nummularia in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2016 Apr. 12.
• Tropicos.org 2016. Atriplex nummularia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 12 Apr. 2016.

Vernacular names

English: Old man saltbush

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