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|accepted_name=Atriplex suckleyi
|accepted_authority=(Torrey) Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. New York Bot. Gard.
|place=1: 134. 1900
|year=1900
}}
|common_names=Suckley’s orach
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Endolepis suckleyi
|authority=Torrey
|rank=species
|publication_title=in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep.,Atriplex dioica (Nuttall) J. F. Macbride
|publication_place=12(2): 47. 1860,1918
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Atriplex endolepis
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Atriplex ovata
|authority=(Rydberg) F. E. Clements & E. G. Clements
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Endolepis dioica
|authority=(Nuttall) Standley
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Endolepis ovata
|authority=Rydberg
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Kochia dioica
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Salsola dioica
|authority=(Nuttall) Sprengel
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Atriplex;Atriplex subg. Obione;Atriplex sect. Endolepis;Atriplex suckleyi
|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. Endolepis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Atriplex suckleyi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 326, 344
|treatment_page=page 345
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> spreading, branching from base, (0.3–)0.5–3(–4) dm and as broad. <b>Stems</b> terete, often tinged with red, sparsely mealy or glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> numerous, alternate, sessile; blade lanceolate to elliptic or less commonly ovate, 7–35 × (2–)4–10(–11) mm, thick and succulent, base acute, margin entire, apex acute or acuminate, glaucous, sparsely farinose when young. <b>Staminate</b> flowers in small glomerules, these in distal axils or in short, dense or interrupted, mostly simple, terminal spikes, perianth cup-shaped, frequently pinkish, lobes each with fleshy crest. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers solitary or few in leaf axils, calyx within bracteoles of 3 or 4, entire or lobed, distinct, obtuse, hyaline sepals. <b>Fruiting</b> bracteoles small and difficult to find, sessile, ovate, 2 × 1.5 mm, membranous, united to apex, without appendages, scurfy, each pistil subtended by a perianth. <b>Seeds</b> brown, 1.5 × 1.2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Alkaline or saline, typically fine-textured substrates, often on shale or clay barrens, sometimes with other Atriplex spp., sagebrush, and grasses
|elevation=(400-)1200-2200 m
|distribution=Alta.;Sask.;Colo.;Mont.;N.Dak.;S.Dak.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>At specific rank, the epithet suckleyi clearly has priority. Stutz et al. (1993) resurrected Endolepis Torrey and placed within it two completely disparate species, E. dioica and <i>E. covillei</i> Standley [<i>Atriplex covillei</i> (Standley) J. F. Macbride]. The interpretation of the genus by Stutz et al. stands on the presence of perianth segments subtending the ovary within the fruiting bracteoles, lack of Kranz leaf anatomy, and other more equivocal characteristics. The shared features hardly indicate near affinity, however. The two taxa are otherwise grossly dissimilar. Fundamentally, the genus Endolepis as resurrected by H. C. Stutz et al. stands on the basis of a single character: the presence of perianth segments. Kranz anatomy rises and falls, both within subg. <i>Atriplex</i> and subg. Obione. Thus, coincidence of the non-Kranz criterion is subject to interpretation. Perianth segments subtending the ovary within the enclosing bracteoles, per se, appear to be of independent origin. And, the peculiar nature of the staminate calyx in <i>A. suckleyi</i> (a major determining condition in establishment of the genus Endolepis by Torrey) is not present in <i>A. covillei</i>. Certainly the two species included within Endolepis appear to be as closely allied to other species of <i>Atriplex</i> as they are to each other.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Atriplex suckleyi
|authority=(Torrey) Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Atriplex endolepis;Atriplex ovata;Endolepis dioica;Endolepis ovata;Kochia dioica;Salsola dioica
|basionyms=Endolepis suckleyi
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Alkaline or saline, typically fine-textured substrates, often on shale or clay barrens, sometimes with other Atriplex spp., sagebrush, and grasses
|elevation=(400-)1200-2200 m
|distribution=Alta.;Sask.;Colo.;Mont.;N.Dak.;S.Dak.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. New York Bot. Gard.
|publication year=1900
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_661.xml
|genus=Atriplex
|subgenus=Atriplex subg. Obione
|section=Atriplex sect. Endolepis
|species=Atriplex suckleyi
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