Atriplex arenaria Nutt.
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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, pale, stem densely silvery-scurfy, bushy-branched, 1-4.5 dm. high, the branches ascending or decumbent, angular. Leaves oblong to obovate, entire, short-petioled or sessile, 1-4 cm. long, whitish-scurfy beneath, the lateral veins few and obscure; staminate flowers in terminal or axillary spikes; pistillate flowers in axillary clusters much shorter than the leaves; fruiting bracts triangular wedge-shaped, broadest above, 4-6 mm. wide, united nearly to the several-toothed summits, their margins entire, their sides reticulated, or sometimes crested or tubercled.
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Distribution
Coastal sands, Eleuthera, Anguilla Isles and Water Cay : Nova Scotia to Texas ; Bermuda ; Cayo Sabinal, Cuba. Sea-beach Atriplex.
Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Nova Scotia Canada North America| Texas United States of America North America| Bermuda South America| Cuba South America|