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|accepted_name=Atriplex pusilla
|accepted_authority=(Torrey) S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=9: 110. 1874
|year=1874
}}
|common_names=Dwarf orach
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Obione pusilla
|authority=Torrey ex S. Watson
|publication_title=Botany (Fortieth Parallel),
|publication_place=291. 1871
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Atriplex;Atriplex subg. Obione;Atriplex sect. Obione;Atriplex subsect. Pusillae;Atriplex pusilla
|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. Obione]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Atriplex sect. Obione]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subsection</small>[[Atriplex subsect. Pusillae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Atriplex pusilla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 328
|treatment_page=page 356
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> freely branched, 0.5–2.5 dm; branches spreading to erect, typically suffused with red, slender, sparsely scurfy. <b>Leaves</b> alternate except proximally, not especially numerous; blade elliptic to subelliptic or ovate, 2–12 × 3–6 mm, base acute, rounded, or subcordate, margin entire, gray to almost green scurfy. <b>Flowers</b> solitary or paired in axils, staminate near branch ends, calyx 5-cleft. <b>Fruiting</b> bracteoles simulating tiny bracteate leaves, sessile, ovate, compressed, 1–2 × 1 mm, united to apex, abruptly acute to acuminate, entire, faces plane. <b>Seeds</b> brownish, 0.8–1 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Saline substrates in valley bottoms, playas, and along drainages with greasewood, rabbitbrush, shadscale, and sagebrush
|elevation=1000-2100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Atriplex pusilla</i> is closely similar to, and possibly a near ally of, the geographically disjunct <i>A. parishii</i> complex of the Great Valley of California, which it simulates in all main features. The very tiny fruiting bracteoles, very difficult to discern among the distal bracteate leaves, are characteristic and apparently closely similar only to those of <i>A. parishii </i>var.<i> minuscula</i>. The red stems are almost universal in plants of this species.</p>
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name=Atriplex pusilla
|author=
|authority=(Torrey) S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=subsection
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Obione pusilla
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Saline substrates in valley bottoms, playas, and along drainages with greasewood, rabbitbrush, shadscale, and sagebrush
|elevation=1000-2100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1874
|special status=
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|genus=Atriplex
|subgenus=Atriplex subg. Obione
|section=Atriplex sect. Obione
|subsection=Atriplex subsect. Pusillae
|species=Atriplex pusilla
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