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|accepted_name=Atriplex coulteri
|accepted_authority=(Moquin-Tandon) D. Dietrich
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Pl.
|place=5: 537. 1852
|year=1852
}}
|common_names=Coulter’s orach
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Obione coulteri
|authority=Moquin-Tand on
|rank=species
|publication_title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication_place=13(2): 113. 1849
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Atriplex;Atriplex subg. Obione;Atriplex sect. Obione;Atriplex subsect. Arenariae;Atriplex coulteri
|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. Arenariae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Atriplex coulteri]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 325, 364
|treatment_page=page 363
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, sometimes flowering as an annual, spreading 0.7–10 dm, slightly woody at base. <b>Stems</b> frequently tinged with red, much branched, sparsely scurfy. <b>Leaves</b> many, sessile or short petiolate; blade obovate, oblong, oblanceolate, or elliptic, (5–)7–20 × 1–3(–5) mm, base cuneate, margin entire, apex acute. <b>Staminate</b> flowers in glomerules in distal axils and short terminal spikes. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers in small axillary clusters. <b>Fruiting</b> bracteoles sessile or subsessile, broadly obovate, 2–3 mm and as broad or about as broad, united 1/2 of length, margin free, deeply and sharply dentate, narrowed at summit, faces smooth or sometimes tuberculate. <b>Seeds</b> brown, 1.3–1.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Somewhat alkaline or clay low places, valley grasslands, coastal sage scrub, coastal slopes
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Atriplex coulteri</i> is closely allied to the geographically disjunct <i>A. fruticulosa</i>, from which it is said to differ in the compressed, small (2.5–3 mm) versus thickened and larger (3–5 mm) bracts. Specimens of <i>A. fruticulosa</i>, including the type, examined by me have bracteoles compressed-thickened, but hardly “globoid” as stated in the key to the species by H. M. Hall and F. E. Clements (1923). Additional specimens borrowed from California might clarify the situation; otherwise the two species are sufficiently close as to be treated as a single entity.</p>
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name=Atriplex coulteri
|authority=(Moquin-Tandon) D. Dietrich
|rank=species
|parent rank=subsection
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Obione coulteri
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Somewhat alkaline or clay low places, valley grasslands, coastal sage scrub, coastal slopes
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Pl.
|publication year=1852
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_711.xml
|genus=Atriplex
|subgenus=Atriplex subg. Obione
|section=Atriplex sect. Obione
|subsection=Atriplex subsect. Arenariae
|species=Atriplex coulteri
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