View source for Atriplex acanthocarpa

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|accepted_name=Atriplex acanthocarpa
|accepted_authority=(Torrey) S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=9: 117. 1874
|year=1874
}}
|common_names=Burscale
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Obione acanthocarpa
|authority=Torrey
|rank=species
|publication_title=in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|publication_place=2(1): 183. 1859
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Atriplex;Atriplex subg. Pterochiton;Atriplex acanthocarpa
|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. Pterochiton]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Atriplex acanthocarpa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 330
|treatment_page=page 370
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or subshrubs, dioecious, evergreen, mainly 2–10 × 4–10+ dm, woody especially basally, unarmed; branchlets obtusely angled to subterete. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, proximal ones opposite, becoming alternate distally, short petiolate or subsessile; blade oblong to oblong-lanceolate, ovate, obovate, or spatulate, 12–40(–50) × 5–25 mm, base commonly subhastate to cuneate, margin entire or sinuate-dentate to strongly undulate-crisped, apex acute. <b>Staminate</b> flowers in interrupted or crowded glomerules 2–4.5 mm thick, in sparsely leafy paniculate spikes to 5+ dm. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers few to solitary, in axillary clusters or in crowded or interrupted, often leafy, erect, branched spicate racemes or racemose panicles to 25+ cm. <b>Fruiting</b> bracteoles on slender or stout stipes (2–)4–20 mm (or sessile), body broadly elliptic to globose, 6–15 mm and wide, spongy, united to the linear apex, margin deeply laciniate, faces appendaged with flattened to hornlike tubercles to 8 mm. <b>Seeds</b> brown, 1.5–2 mm.</span><!--

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|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blade ovate to rhombic-ovate, elliptic, or spatulate, margin mainly sinuate-dentate; mature fruiting inflorescences ascending to erect; west Texas, s New Mexico, se Arizona
|[[Atriplex acanthocarpa var. acanthocarpa|Atriplex acanthocarpa var. acanthocarpa]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blade, at least some, hastate-lanceolate, or strongly undulate-crisped; mature fruiting inflorescences mainly horizontally spreading; s Texas, Mexico
|[[Atriplex acanthocarpa var. coahuilensis|Atriplex acanthocarpa var. coahuilensis]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Atriplex acanthocarpa
|authority=(Torrey) S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Obione acanthocarpa
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;n Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1874
|special status=
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|genus=Atriplex
|subgenus=Atriplex subg. Pterochiton
|species=Atriplex acanthocarpa
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