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|accepted_name=Atriplex graciliflora
|accepted_authority=M. E. Jones
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Cali f. Acad. Sci., ser.
|place=2, 5: 717. 1895
|year=1895
}}
|common_names=Blue Valley orach
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Obione graciliflora
|authority=(M. E. Jones) Ulbrich
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Atriplex;Atriplex subg. Obione;Atriplex sect. Obione;Atriplex subsect. Graciliflorae;Atriplex graciliflora
|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. Graciliflorae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Atriplex graciliflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 326, 347
|treatment_page=page 346
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> branching from base, mainly 1–3 dm. <b>Stems</b> often suffused with red-purple, terete, sparingly farinose when young. <b>Leaves</b> mainly alternate, numerous; petiole 2–12(–16) mm; blade cordate-ovate to orbicular, subreniform, cordate, or deltoid, (5–)8–20(–25) mm and about as wide or wider, base truncate to cordate (or attenuate when young), apex rounded to obtuse or acute. <b>Staminate</b> flowers in loose, deciduous, terminal panicles overtopping foliage, rachis and branches filiform, glomerules often beadlike in alternate position along rachis, perianth 5-lobed. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers axillary. <b>Fruiting</b> bracteoles on stipes 2–6 mm, samaralike, suborbicular, oblong or cordate in outline, winged, compressed, 6–16 mm wide, margins 2–4 times as wide as body, wings undulate or entire, surfaces smooth. <b>Seeds</b> white, 3 mm wide, dull.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Saltbush, mat-atriplex, seepweed, greasewood, rabbitbrush, and tamarix communities on saline, often salt encrusted and semibarren substrates derived from Mancos Shale, Tropic Shale, Entrada, and other fine-textured formations
|elevation=1100-2000 m
|distribution=Colo.;Utah.
|discussion=<p><i>Atriplex graciliflora</i> is unique among our indigenous atriplices in having samaralike, entire fruiting bracteoles. When the bracteoles are considered along with the slender, terminal, staminate panicles of alternating beadlike glomerules, the species is unmatched. Its relationship is apparently with <i>A. saccaria</i>, which has undergone considerable morphologic radiation within the Four Corners region.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Atriplex graciliflora
|authority=M. E. Jones
|rank=species
|parent rank=subsection
|synonyms=Obione graciliflora
|basionyms=
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Saltbush, mat-atriplex, seepweed, greasewood, rabbitbrush, and tamarix communities on saline, often salt encrusted and semibarren substrates derived from Mancos Shale, Tropic Shale, Entrada, and other fine-textured formations
|elevation=1100-2000 m
|distribution=Colo.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Cali f. Acad. Sci., ser.
|publication year=1895
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_664.xml
|genus=Atriplex
|subgenus=Atriplex subg. Obione
|section=Atriplex sect. Obione
|subsection=Atriplex subsect. Graciliflorae
|species=Atriplex graciliflora
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