Description
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Annual up to 20 cm, glabrescent. Leaves lanceolate, up to 3.0 × 0.3 cm long. Inflorescence dense, 3–5 cm long. Inflorescence elongated. Bracts oblong to ovoid, moderately recurved or sometimes appressed to the stem, completely covering the fruit. Fruit 3.8–4.7 × 3.0–3.5 mm, glabrous (sometimes with dark-brown tanniniferous cells), thick (0.75–0.85 mm) with well-developed wing 0.65–0.90 mm (especially large near the fruit apex; Fig. 36A). Wing irregularly toothed, emarginate, triangular in cross-section. Pericarp without detachments from the seed coat. Sclereids in the medium fruit part consist of 1–3 cell layers orientated parallel to the fruit axis.
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- Alexander P. Sukhorukov, Pei-Liang Liu, Maria Kushunina
- bibliographic citation
- Sukhorukov A, Liu P, Kushunina M (2019) Taxonomic revision of Chenopodiaceae in Himalaya and Tibet PhytoKeys (116): 1–141
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- Alexander P. Sukhorukov
- author
- Pei-Liang Liu
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- Maria Kushunina