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Chenopodiaceae - Chenopodioideae - Atripliceae - Manochlamys Aellen

Description:

  • Grey aromatic shrubs
  • Leaves alternate, hastate, roundish-cordate to ovate-lanceolate, entire
  • Inflorescences terminal spikes
  • Flowers unisexual
  • Male flowers with 5 tepals, ovate; stamens 5, longer than perianth
  • Female flowers with 3 or 4 very small tepals and 2 broad-based bracts; bracts becoming fleshy, encircling, but not covering fruit
  • Fruit white or greenish
  • Seed compressed with rounded margin, smooth, shiny, black, vertical; embryo ± circular

Nomenclature:

  • Manochlamys Aellen
    • Aellen: 379 (1940)
    • Adamson: 355 (1950)
    • Aellen: 12 (1967)
  • Atriplex L. in part C.H.Wright
    • Wright: 442 (1910).
  • Exomis Fenzl ex Moq. in part
    • Kühn: 267 (1993)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa: Monotypic: Manochlamys albicans (Aiton) Aellen, Namibia, Northern Cape (Namaqualand) to SW Western Cape

References:

  • ADAMSON, R.S. 1950. Chenopodiaceae Less. In R.S. Adamson & T.M. Salter, Flora of the Cape Peninsula. Juta, Cape Town
  • AELLEN, P. 1940. Exomis und Manochlamys in Südafrika. Botanische Jahrbücher 70
  • AELLEN, P. 1967. Chenopodiaceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 32
  • KÜHN, U. 1993. Chenopodiaceae. In K. Kubitzki, J.G. Rohwer & V. Bittrich, The families and genera of vascular plants - dicotyledons 2. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
  • WRIGHT, C.H. 1910-1912. Chenopodiaceae. Flora capensis 5,1

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