Atriplex nummularia

Atriplex nummularia

Taxonavigation edit

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 edit

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 edit

  • 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 edit

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

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Vernacular names edit

English: Old man saltbush
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