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Jepson eFlora: Taxon page
Key to families | Table of families and genera |
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Index to accepted names and synonyms: | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | |
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Family: Chenopodiaceae | View Description | Dichotomous Key |
Genus: | View Description | Dichotomous Key |
Species: | View Description | Dichotomous Key |
Higher Taxonomy
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Suaeda Habit: Annual to shrub, glabrous to hairy. Leaf: generally alternate; blade entire, cylindric to adaxially flattened or completely flattened, fleshy, generally glaucous, tip acute [obtuse to round]. Inflorescence: cyme; clusters sessile, generally in panicles of spikes; bracts leaf-like to reduced; bractlets subtending flowers 1--3, minute, membranous; flowers 1--12 per cluster. Flower: generally bisexual; calyx radial, bilateral, or asymmetric, lobes 5, generally fleshy, rounded, hooded, keeled, horned, or wing-margined; ovary +- lenticular, rounded, conic or pear-shaped, neck occasionally narrowed, stigmas 2--4(5). Fruit: enclosed in calyx. Seed: horizontal or vertical, lenticular or flat, of 2 kinds in some species. Species In Genus: 115 species: worldwide, saline and alkaline soils. Etymology: (Ancient Arabic name) eFlora Treatment Author: H. Jochen Schenk & Wayne R. Ferren, Jr. Reference: Ferren & Schenk 2003 FNANM 4:390--398 Jepson Online Interchange Key to SuaedaPrevious taxon: Stutzia covillei Next taxon: Suaeda calceoliformis |
Citation for this treatment: H. Jochen Schenk & Wayne R. Ferren, Jr. 2012, Suaeda, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=11511, accessed on April 24, 2018. Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2018, Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 24, 2018.
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