Taxonomic revision of Chenopodiaceae in Himalaya and Tibet
Author
Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
Author
Liu, Pei-Liang
Author
Kushunina, Maria
text
PhytoKeys
2019
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.116.27301
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.116.27301
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Acroglochin Schrad. in Roem. & Schult., Mant.: 69 (1822)
Acroglochin chenopodioides
Schrad. (=
A. persicarioides
(Poir.) Moq.) (
Type
).
Description.
Glabrous or scarcely pubescent annual up to 50(70) cm, branches often terminating in acicular apices. Leaves long-petiolate, up to 10.0 cm, broadly ovate or ovoid, dentate or erose, teeth straight or incurved, tip mucronate, blades glabrous or sparsely covered with simple, often curved hairs. Inflorescences in the leaf axils, quite short, falsely dichotomous. Perianth of 5 free segments, keeled along midrib. Stamens 2, anthers small, 0.2-0.3 mm, without appendages. Stylodia concrescent into column in their lower half. Fruit dehiscent by a lid; pericarp white or greenish with several homocellular layers. Seeds dark-red, depressed-globular, ~1.3 mm in diameter, smooth.
One species in Himalaya and West and Central China.