View source for Zuckia ← Zuckia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Zuckia |accepted_authority=Standley |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=J. Wash. Acad. Sci. |place=5: 58. 1916 |year=1916 }} |common_names=Siltbush |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Zuckia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Zuckia]]</div></div> |etymology=for Myrtle Zuck, fl. 1897 |volume=Volume 4 |mention_page=page 260, 304 |treatment_page=page 303 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or subshrubs, dioecious or monoecious; herbage ± scurfy. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, branching from base, not jointed, not armed; axillary buds prominent, subglobose. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, subsessile or bases tapering to short petioles; blade linear or narrowly oblanceolate-spatulate to elliptic, ovate, obovate, or orbiculate, margins entire or rarely hastately lobed, apex acute or obtuse. <b>Inflorescences</b> commonly with some moniliform hairs; staminate flowers borne in spikes in apical axils or ± paniculate, glomerules 2–5-flowered; pistillate flowers 1–several per bract, often some vestigial. <b>Staminate</b> flowers not separately bracteolate, but with linear bracts subtending each spike; perianth 4(–5)-lobed; stamens 4–5. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers each enclosed by 2 bracteoles connate nearly to apex; perianth absent; stigmas 2. <b>Fruiting</b> structures: bracteoles either veinless and laterally flattened and/or 1–3-veined adaxially, or rarely unequally 3-winged, enclosed achene vertical, or bracteoles transversely flattened, oval to hexagonal and not or unequally 1–4(–5)-ridged, with 2 slightly enlarged wings, thus accommodating horizontal achene, margins not spongy-thickened; bracteoles lacking spongy cellular matrix, often subtended by single, filiform bractlet; pericarp adherent. <b>Seeds</b> reniform; seed coat greenish, tuberculate; embryo annular; perisperm copious. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=w United States. |discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!-- --><p><i>Zuckia</i> was erected by P. C. Standley (1916) to include a solitary species, Z. arizonica, based on low, shrubby plants from saline, fine-textured substrates in northern Arizona. That taxon stood apart from <i>Grayia</i> brandegeei A. Gray, a species otherwise closely similar in the compression of the bracts and the horizontal position of the seeds. In the present treatment both taxa are included within an expanded <i>Zuckia</i>.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Zuckia |author=Stanley L. Welsh |authority=Standley |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Chenopodiaceae |distribution=w United States. |reference=None |publication title=J. Wash. Acad. Sci. |publication year=1916 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_581.xml |genus=Zuckia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Chenopodiaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Chenopodiaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Zuckia.