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|accepted_name=Aphanisma
|accepted_authority=Nuttall ex Moquin-Tandon in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prod.
|place=13(2): 43, 54. 1849
|year=1849
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Aphanisma
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Aphanisma]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek aphanes, obscure or inconspicuous
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 261
|treatment_page=page 264
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, decumbent, ascending and stout or slender and flexuous, simple or sparsely branched, not jointed or armed, succulent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, sessile or petiolate; blade not fleshy, margins entire; proximal spatulate, oblanceolate, or oblong, apex obtuse or acute; distal ovate-oblong to cordate-oblong, base clasping. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, sessile, 1–5-flowered. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; perianth 3(–5)-lobed, herbaceous; stigmas 3; stamen 1. <b>Fruiting</b> structures: utricle globose, exceeding perianth at maturity; pericarp free from seed, green, membranous, dehiscence circumscissile. <b>Seeds</b> horizontal, lenticular; seed coat black, rugose-punctate; embryo incompletely annular, perisperm copious. [No chromosome count available.]</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;nw Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Aphanisma
|author=Leila M. Shultz
|authority=Nuttall ex Moquin-Tandon in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|distribution=Calif.;nw Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prod.
|publication year=1849
|special status=
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|genus=Aphanisma
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