Chenopodium ficifolium subsp. ficifolium
- Dataset
- Chenopodiaceae - Fumariaceae (Chenopodium)
- Rank
- SUBSPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Plantae
- phylum
- Tracheophyta
- class
- Magnoliopsida
- order
- Caryophyllales
- family
- Amaranthaceae
- genus
- Chenopodium
biology_ecology
Habitat. Ports, tips, roadsides and other waste ground; now often a weed of gardens and urban plantations.
description
Pure green. Leaf-blades ovate to elliptic, usually distinctly lobed; midlobe coarsely sinuate-serrate to subentire; both side-lobes usually with a tooth. Seeds with distinct pits; margin of pits + / - straight.
distribution
Distribution. Probably a fairly recent anthropochore, brought in e. g. with grain, ballast, ore and cork, to F also with wartime transports; established in parts of D and S. - D first collected in 1855 (Sjae Kobenhavn); OJy Randers and Arhus 1970 ' s, VJy Esbjerg 1933, SJy Abenra 1935, FyL Langeland 1995 - 96; Sjae many records, established at least in Kobenhavn; LFM several records 1955 and later; probably overlooked. N old records of casual occurrences on ballast from the south coast: 0 / Fredrikstad, Te Porsgrunn, AA Lillesand, VA Kristiansand; more recently Ak Oslo 1969 (old ballast site, from seed bank), Ho Osteroy 1968 (garden weed), SF Jolster 1982 (field, probably from poultry farm or mill refuse), ST Skaun 1937 (mill). S formerly rare and ephemeral and more constant only in southwestern Sk; since the 1980 ' s increasing and established at least in some urban areas; Sk fairly common at least in the southwest, Bl Karlshamn 1818 (ballast), Gtl Bro 1895 (escape), Visby 1888 (ballast), Kim Nybro 1923, Kalmar 1921, 1923, Torsas 1988, Sml Joenkoeping 1989, Rogberga 1990, Saevsjoe 1992, /// Lindome 1929, BhG numerous localities in the Goeteborg area from 1900 on, Vg Vaestra Tunhem 1958 (on manganese ore from Turkey), Oeg Norrkoeping 1867, Srm Dunker 1892, 1893; numerous records from the Stockholm area especially during the 1980 ' s and 1990 ' s, apparently established, Upl a few old records, numerous recent ones, apparently established in the Stockholm area; Mpd Timra 1902, 1910 (ballast), Ang Ytterlaennaes 1856 (ballast), Nb Pitea 1993. F casual; V Uusikaupunki 1950 ' s (from old ballast soil), U Helsinki 1940, 1964, Elimaeki 1994, EH Tampere 1970, Toijala 1982 - 83 and Valkeakoski 1993 - 99, EP Kaskinen and Kristiinankaupunki (in both cases a wartime casual), Vaasa 1931, PS Varkaus 1994, KP Kokkola (wartime casual), Raahe 1999, OP Oulu 1960, 1994 - 98. Mainly in C Europe (rare in the Mediterranean); from SW Asia to Siberia.
vernacular_names
S vanlig fikonmalla. Literature. Hartvig 1995.