Chenopodium opulifolium

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
Genus: Chenopodium
Species: Chenopodium opulifolium

Name

Chenopodium opulifolium Schrad. ex W.D.J.Koch & Ziz, Cat. Pl. (Koch & Ziz) 6. (1814)

Type: (Germany): Arheilgen. Borkhausen s.n.
the reference to "Ch. album (sensu) Borkh. in Rhein. Mag." (= Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, Rheinisches Magazin 1: 472-473. 1793), non L. (1753) provides the validating description.

Synonyms

Homotypic
- Anserina opulifolia (Schrad. ex W.D.J.Koch & Ziz) Friche-Joset & Montandon, Syn. Fl. Jura 263. (1856)
- Chenopodium opulifolium Schrad. ex DC., Fl. Franc. [de Candolle & Lamarck], ed. 3. 6: 372. (1815) - isonym
- Chenopodium album subsp. opulifolium (W.D.J.Koch & Ziz) Čelak., Prodr. Fl. Böhm. 154. (1871)
- Chenopodium album subsp. opulifolium (Schrad.) Batt., Batt. & Trabut, Fl. Algérie 1: 753. (1890) - isonym
- Chenopodium album subsp. opulifolium (Schrad. ex W.D.J.Koch & Ziz) Maire, Fl. Afrique N. 8: 36. (1962) - isonym
- Chenopodium album var. opulifolium (Schrad.) Aswal, in B.S. Aswal & B.N. Mehrotra, Fl. Lahaul-Spiti 531. (1994)
- Vulvaria opulifolia Bubani, Fl. Pyren. (Bubani) 1: 176. (1897)
Heterotypic (ref. Hassler 2018)
- Chenopodium erosum Bast., J. Bot. Agric. 3: 20. (1814), nom. illeg. (later homonym of Chenopodium erosum R.Br. 1810)
- Chenopodium opulifolium subsp. ugandae Aellen, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 24: 339. (1928)
- Chenopodium ugandae (Aellen) Aellen, Bull. Jard. Bot. État 34: 491. (1964)
- Chenopodium mucronatum var. subintegrum Aellen,

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Europe
- Middle Europe
  - Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
- Southwestern Europe
  - France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain (incl. Baleares)
- Southeastern Europe
  - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
- Eastern Europe
  - Belarus, Moldova, Russian Federation, [Belgorod, Kalmykia, Rostov, Voronezh] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
Africa
- Northern Africa
  - Algeria (n.), Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia
- Northeast Tropical Africa
  - Somalia
- East Tropical Africa
  - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
- South Tropical Africa
  - Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Asia-Temperate
- Middle Asia
  - Turkmenistan
- Caucasus
  - Azerbaijan
- Western Asia
  - Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey (w.)
- Arabian Peninsula
  - Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

introduced elsewhere

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Primary references

Koch, W.D.J. & Ziz, J.B. 1814. Catalogus Plantarum, quas in ditione florae Palatinatus legerunt G. Koch et J. B. Ziz. Phanerogamia. Moguntia. online. Reference page. : 6
Borkhausen, M.B. 1793. Rheinisches Magazin zur Erweiterung der Naturkunde. 1. Band. Gießen, Heyer. (online) Reference page. : 472–473
Aswal, B.S. & Mehrotra, B.N. 1994. Flora of Lahaul-Spiti: a cold desert in north west Himalaya. 761 pp. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh. ISBN 9788121100991, 8121100992. Reference page. : 531.
Battandier, J.A. & Trabut, L.C. 1888–1890. Flore de l'Algérie. Ancienne flore d'Alger transformée, contenant la description de toutes les plantes signalées jusqu'à ce jour comme spontanées en Algérie par Battandier et Trabut professeurs à l'École de Mèdecine et de Pharmacie d'Alger. (1.) Dicotylédones. XI, 825, XXIX pp., Alger: Adolphe Jourdan. Biblioteca Digital Reference page. : 753
Bubani, P. 1897. Flora Pyrenaea per ordines naturales gradatim digesta v.1. Mediolani [Milan]: U. Hoeplius. BHL Reference page. : 176
De Candolle, A.P. 1815. Flore Française, ou descriptions succinctes de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en France. Troisième édition, Tome cinqième ou sixième volume. 662 pp., pl. 1–11. Paris: Agasse. BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page. : 372
Čelakovský, L. 1871. Prodromus der Flora von Böhmen. Zweiter Theil, enthalted die Apetalen und Sympetalen. Archiv fur die Naturwissenschaftliche Landesdurchforschung von Bohmen 2 (1873): 113–390. Prag, Eduard Grege. BHL Reference page. : 154
Friche-Joset, F. & Montandon, F.J. 1856. Synopsis de la Flore du Jura septentrional et du Sundgau. Mulhouse, J.P. Risler. online Reference page. : 263.
Maire, R.C.J.E.† 1962. Flore de l'Afrique du Nord 8. Dicotyledoneae, Archichlamydeae: Centrospermales: Chenopodiaceae, Amaranthaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Phytolaccaceae, Thelygonaceae, Aizoaceae, Portulacaceae, Basellaceae. 303 pp. Paul Lechevalier, Paris. PDF Reference page. : 36.

Additional references

Clemants, S.E. & Mosyakin, S.L.
eFloras 2008. Chenopodium opulifolium in Flora of North America. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
Uotila, P. 2011. Chenopodiaceae (pro parte majore). Chenopodium opulifolium In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.

Links

Hassler, M. 2018. Chenopodium opulifolium. 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 Nov. 6. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Chenopodium opulifolium. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 8 2016.
The Plant List 2013. Chenopodium opulifolium in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2016 Mar. 8.
Tropicos.org 2016. Chenopodium opulifolium. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 8 Mar. 2016.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Chenopodium opulifolium in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service.

Vernacular names

dansk: Kortbladet Gåsefod
Deutsch: Schneeballblättriger Gänsefuß
English: Grey Goosefoot
español: cenizo, quenopodio, sahuquillo falso
suomi: Heisisavikka
français: Chénopode à feuilles d'obier
italiano: Farinello con foglie di viburno
norsk: Småmelde
polski: Komosa kalinolistna
svenska: Olvonmålla

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