Chenopodium antarcticum (Hook, f.) (Hook, f.) Hook. f. 1800
- Dataset
- Chenopodiaceae - Fumariaceae (Chenopodium)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Plantae
- phylum
- Tracheophyta
- class
- Magnoliopsida
- order
- Caryophyllales
- family
- Amaranthaceae
- genus
- Chenopodium
- species
- Chenopodium antarcticum
description
- Perennial, prostrate to ascending, richly branched from the base, farinose. Basal leaves with petiole often longer than the blade; blade broadly ovate, up to 4 x 2 cm, deeply lobed, pinnate or bipinnate; bracts dentate to entire. Inflorescences spike-like, bracteate almost to the top, composed of sessile glomerules. Flowers dimorphic; terminal ones with 4 - 5 tepals, lateral ones with 2 - 4. Tepals narrow. Seed horizontal in terminal flowers, vertical in lateral ones, broadly ovoid in outline, 0.7 - 1 mm.
distribution
S Sk Lackalaenga 1949 (with wool). - Patagonia.