Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Chenopodium nutans (R.Br.) S.Fuentes & Borsch, Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 62 (2012)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Einadia nutans (R.Br.) A.J.Scott, Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 89: 3 (1978)
Description
Sprawling or low scrambling herb, often forming dense mounds; young parts farinose. Stems wiry, angled, often intertwining, sometimes to c. 1 m long. Lvs with petioles to 10 mm long, slender, alternate or opposite. Lamina 8–30 × 3–20–(25) mm, mostly hastate or narrow-triangular, but otherwise entire, green or somewhat glaucescent; apex ± acute; upper lvs becoming lanceolate with cuneate base. Fls in short terminal and axillary spikes; each glomerule subtended by a small linear-subulate bract. Perianth segments c. 0.5 mm long, broad-elliptic, green with narrow membranous margin, becoming c. 1–1.5 mm long, crimson, and ± succulent at fruiting. Stamens 1–3. Fr. 2.5–3 mm diam.; pericarp globular or nearly so, crimson, fleshy. Seed c. 1.2 mm diam., circular, flattened, shining, black, striated.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4. as Einadia nutans (R.Br.) A.J.Scott]
Biostatus
Exotic
Phenology
Flowering: Nov.–Mar.
Bibliography
Fuentes-Bazan, S.; Mansion, G.; Borsch, T. 2012: Towards a species level tree of the globally diverse genus Chenopodium (Chenopodiaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62: 359–374.
Fuentes-Bazan, S.; Uotila, P.; Borsch, T. 2012: A novel phylogeny-based generic classification for Chenopodium sensu lato, and a tribal rearrangement of Chenopodioideae (Chenopodiaceae). Willdenowia 42: 5–24.
Scott, A.J. 1978: Rhagodiinae: a new subtribe in the Chenopodiaceae. Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 89: 1–12.
