Atriplex saccaria

Atriplex saccaria

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 saccaria

Varietates: A. s. var. asterocarpa – A. s. var. cornuta – A. s. var. saccaria

Name

Atriplex saccaria S.Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 9: 112. (1874)

• Type: USA (Utah or Wyoming), A. Gray s.n. [in 1872]. Holotype:?

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Atriplex truncata var. saccaria (S.Watson) M.E.Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 11: 20. (1903)
  • Obione saccaria (S.Watson) Ulbr., Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2 [Engler & Prantl] 16c: 507. (1934)
• Heterotypic
  • Atriplex caput-medusae Eastw., Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, 6: 316. (1896)
  • Atriplex argentea var. caput-medusae (Eastw.) Fosberg, Amer. Midl. Naturalist 26: 693. (1941)
  • Atriplex saccaria var. caput-medusae (Eastw.) S.L.Welsh, Great Basin Naturalist 44(2): 194. (1984)
  • Obione caput-medusae (Eastw.) S.C.Sand. & G.L.Chu, Gen. New Evol. System World Chenopod. 153. (2017)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Northern America Northwestern U.S.A. Colorado, Wyoming Southwestern U.S.A. Arizona, Nevada, Utah South-Central U.S.A. New Mexico, Texas References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Watson, S. 1874. A revision of the North American Chenopodiaceae. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 9: 82–126. BHL Reference page. : 112
• Eastwood, A. 1896. Report on a collection of plants from San Juan County in southeastern Utah. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 2, 6: 270–329. BHL Reference page. : 316–317, pl. 46
• Fosberg, F.R. 1941. Notes on North American Plants I. American Midland Naturalist 26(3): 690–695. DOI: 10.2307/2420741 Reference page. : 693
• Jones, M.E. 1903. Contributions to Western Botany, No. 11. Mammoth Record, Robinson, Utah. BHL Reference page. : 20
• Ulbrich, O.E. 1934. Chenopodiaceae, in: Engler, A. & Prantl, K.A.E. (eds.): Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, ed.2. 16c, Engelmann, Leipzig: 379–584. Reference page. : 507
• Welsh, S.L. 1984. Utah Flora: Chenopodiaceae. Great Basin Naturalist 44(2) 183–209. BHL Reference page. : 194
• Zhu, G.L. & Sanderson, S.C. 2017. Genera and a New Evolutionary System of World Chenopodiaceae. 361 pp. Beijing: Science Press. Reference page. : 153

Additional references

• Welsh, S.L.
• eFloras 2008. Atriplex saccaria in Flora of North America. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

Links

• Hassler, M. 2018. Atriplex saccaria. 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. 21. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2016. Atriplex saccaria. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 12 2016.
• The Plant List 2013. Atriplex saccaria in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2016 Apr. 12.
• Tropicos.org 2016. Atriplex saccaria. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 12 Apr. 2016.

Vernacular names

English: sack saltbush, Stalked orach

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