Chenopodium latifolium

Chenopodium latifolium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Subfamily: Chenopodioideae
Tribe: Atripliceae
Genus: Chenopodium
Species: C. latifolium
Binomial name
Chenopodium latifolium
(Benth.) S.Fuentes & Borsch
Synonyms
  • Rhagodia latifolia (Benth.) Paul G. Wilson
  • Rhagodia crassifolia var. latifolia Benth.[1]

Chenopodium latifolium[1] (Syn. Rhagodia latifolia) is a species of shrub endemic to midwest Western Australia.

Description

It grows as a shrub from 40 centimetres to two metres high, leathery, elliptical leaves, and panicles of green flowers.[2]

Taxonomy

It was first published as a variety of Rhagodia crassifolia by George Bentham in 1870, based on a specimen collected from Dirk Hartog Island by Allan Cunningham. In 1983 Paul G. Wilson promoted it to specific rank.[3] After phylogenetical research, Fuentes-Bazan et al. (2012) included this species in genus Chenopodium.[1]

Two subspecies are currently recognised:[1] the autonym Chenopodium latifolium subsp. latifolium, and Chenopodium latifolium subsp. rectum (Paul G. Wilson) S.Fuentes & Borsch, which was published by Wilson in 1983.[4]

Distribution and habitat

It occurs on coastal sand dunes and limestone cliff in midwest Western Australia, ranging from Geraldton north to the Murchison River.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Susy Fuentes-Bazan, Guilhem Mansion, Thomas Borsch: Towards a species level tree of the globally diverse genus Chenopodium (Chenopodiaceae). In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Vol. 62, No. 1, 2012, ISSN 1055-7903, p. 372, DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.10.006
  2. 1 2 "Rhagodia latifolia (Benth.) Paul G.Wilson". FloraBase. Department of Environment and Conservation, Government of Western Australia.
  3. "Rhagodia latifolia (Benth.) Paul G.Wilson". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  4. Wilson, Paul G. "Chenopodiaceae". Flora of Australia IV. p. 172.
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