Atriplex argentea

Atriplex argentea

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 argentea

Varietates: A. a. var. argentea – A. a. var. expansa – A. a. var. hillmanii – A. a. var. longitrichoma – A. a. var. rydbergii

Hassler lists instead Atriplex argentea var. caput-medusae (Eastw.) Fosberg.

Name

Atriplex argentea Nutt., Gen. N. Amer. Pl. [Nuttall]. 1: 198. (1818)

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Obione argentea (Nutt.) Moq., Chenop. Enum. 76 (1840)
• Heterotypic
  • Atriplex volutans A. Nelson, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 25: 203, pl. 341. (1898)

Homonyms

• Atriplex argentea Pall. ex Steud. (1840), nom. inval. in syn.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Northern America Western Canada Alberta (s.), British Columbia (s.), Manitoba (s.), Saskatchewan (s.) Northwestern U.S.A. Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming North-Central U.S.A. Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota Southwestern U.S.A. Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah South-Central U.S.A. New Mexico, Texas Mexico Chihuahua References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Nuttall, T. 1818. The genera of North American plants, and a catalogue of the species, to the year 1817. Volume 1. viii + 312 pp, D. Heartt, Philadelphia. BHL Reference page. : 198
• Moquin-Tandon, A. 1840. Chenopodearum Monographica Enumeratio. P.-J. Loss, Paris. BHL Reference page. : 76–77
• Nelson, A. 1898. New plants from Wyoming. I–IV. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 25(4). I: 202–206; II: 275–284; III: 373–381; IV: 546–549. BHL Reference page. : 203–204, pl. 341.

Additional references

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

Links

• Hassler, M. 2018. Atriplex argentea. 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 July 25. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2016. Atriplex argentea. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 07 2016.
• The Plant List 2013. Atriplex argentea in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2016 Apr. 07.
• Tropicos.org 2016. Atriplex argentea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 07 Apr. 2016.

Vernacular names

English: Silverscale Saltbush

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