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. TDGW – 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 (2019). In: Roskov 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 on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Sept. 21.
• 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 on the internet. Accessed: 2016 Apr. 12.
• Tropicos.org 2016. Atriplex saccaria. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2016 Apr. 12.

Vernacular names

English: sack saltbush, Stalked orach