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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Atriplex nummularia
|accepted_authority=Lindley in T. L. Mitchell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in T. L. Mitchell, J. Exped. Trop. Australia,
|place=64. 1848
|year=1848
}}
|common_names=Old man saltbush
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Atriplex johnstonii
|authority=C. B. Wolf
}}
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Atriplex;Atriplex subg. Atriplex;Atriplex sect. Dialysex;Atriplex nummularia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Atriplex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Atriplex subg. Atriplex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Atriplex sect. Dialysex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Atriplex nummularia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 331
|treatment_page=page 343
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> semidioecious, mainly (15–)20–30 dm, with striated twigs. <b>Leaves</b> mostly alternate, short petiolate; blade broadly ovate, rhombic to suborbiculate, (15–)30–65 mm, about as wide, thick, base cuneate, margin sinuate-dentate, apex obtuse to rounded. <b>Staminate</b> flowers crowded in glomerules on short or elongate, interrupted spikes in large paniculate clusters to 20 cm. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers in dense, compound panicles, or axillary, or along staminate panicle branches. <b>Fruiting</b> bracteoles sessile, reticulately veined, rhombic to orbiculate, 5–12(–15) × 5–11 mm, papery all over or thick and corky, margin subentire to coarsely few-toothed. <b>Seeds</b> brown, 2 mm wide.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Sandy coastal bluffs, disturbed sites such as roadsides
|elevation=0-2300 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Mexico;Australia.
|discussion=<p><i>Atriplex nummularia</i> is a rather coarse, broad-leaved, vigorous shrub, which has spread from some early introduction from Australia, possibly for use in stabilizing land.</p>
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name=Atriplex nummularia
|author=
|authority=Lindley in T. L. Mitchell
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Atriplex johnstonii
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Sandy coastal bluffs, disturbed sites such as roadsides
|elevation=0-2300 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Mexico;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in T. L. Mitchell, J. Exped. Trop. Australia,
|publication year=1848
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_655.xml
|genus=Atriplex
|subgenus=Atriplex subg. Atriplex
|section=Atriplex sect. Dialysex
|species=Atriplex nummularia
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