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Dysphania chilensis
(Schrad.) Mosyakin & Clemants
Family:
Amaranthaceae
FNA
Resources
Steven E. Clemants & Sergei L. Mosyakin in Flora of North America (vol. 4)
Plants
annual.
Stems
erect to ascending, branched, 4-6 dm, ± glandular-pubescent, white-villous.
Leaves
aromatic, distal leaves sessile; petiole 2-2.5 mm; blade lanceolate, 2-9 × 0.5-4 cm, base cuneate, margins of distal leaves shallowly dentate to sinuate-pinnatifid, apex acuminate, villous and copiously gland-dotted (rarely nearly glabrous).
Inflorescences
terminal and axillary spikes, 3-15 cm; glomerules globose, 1.7-2.3 mm diam.; bracts leaflike, narrowly ovate, 1-1.8 cm, apex acuminate.
Flowers:
perianth segments 5, connate for ca.
1
/2 their length, distinct portion ovate, 0.7-1 mm, apex obtuse, rounded abaxially, villous, covering fruit at maturity; stamens 5; stigmas 3.
Achenes
ovoid; pericarp nonadherent, glandular.
Seeds
vertical, black, ovoid, 0.5-0.8 × 0.8 mm; seed coat smooth.
Fruiting summer-fall. Waste areas; 0-100 m; introduced; Calif., Oreg.; native to s South America.
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