Atriplex pentandra Standl.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Amaranthaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Annual or perennial, branched, the branches procumbent or ascending, 3-8 dm. long, scurfy when young, becoming glabrate. Leaves alternate, sessile or short-petioled, oblong to rhombic or obovate, 1-3 cm. long, obtuse or acute at the apex, mucronate, euneate at the base, repand-dentate, undulate or the upper entire, white-scurfy beneath, green above; flowers monoecious, the staminate in dense short terminal spikes, the pistillate clustered in the axils; fruiting bracts cuneate-orbicular, about 3 mm. long, united only at the base, sharply dentate, the sides bearing 2 dentate crests or irregularly tubercled; seed brown.
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Distribution
Coastal rocks and sands, throughout the archipelago from Great Bahama south to Andros, Mariguana, Atwood Cay, and Grand Turk : Florida ; Cuba to St. Jan ; Jamaica; Curacao ; Venezuela and Colombia to Peru. Crested Atriplex.
Andros Island Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| St. Jan Virgin Islands South America| Jamaica South America| Curaçao South America| Venezuela South America| Colombia South America| Peru South America|