Proatriplex pleiantha

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: Proatriplex
Species: Proatriplex pleiantha

Proatriplex pleiantha (W.A.Weber) Stutz & G.L.Chu, Amer. J. Bot. 77(3): 366 (1990).

Basionym
- Atriplex pleiantha W.A.Weber, Madroño 10: 189 (1950).
  - Type: USA (Colorado), Montezuma County, 12 Jun 1949, W.A.Weber 4788. Holotype: COLO; Isotypes: GH, POM, UC, US.

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

Stutz, H.C. & Chu, G.L. & Sanderson, S.C. 1990. Evolutionary studies of Atriplex: Phylogenetic relationships of Atriplex pleiantha. American Journal of Botany 77(3): 364–369. DOI: 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1990.tb13565.x Reference page.
Weber, W.A. 1950. A new species and subgenus of Atriplex from southwestern Colorado. Madroño 10: 187–191. JSTOR Reference page.

Zacharias, E.H. & Baldwin, B.G. 2010. A molecular phylogeny of North American Atripliceae (Chenopodiaceae), with implications for floral and photosynthetic pathway evolution. Systematic Botany 35(4): 839–857. DOI: 10.1600/036364410X539907 Reference page.
Welsh, S.L. 2003. Atriplex pleiantha in Flora of North America Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

Hassler, M. 2018. Proatriplex pleiantha. 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 Oct. 1. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Proatriplex pleiantha. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 2 2016.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2023. Proatriplex pleiantha in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2023 Oct. 30. Reference page.

Tropicos.org 2016. Proatriplex pleiantha. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 2 Mar. 2016.

English: Four-corners orach

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