Chenopodium baryosmon, Röm. and Sch.

John Lindley, 1838, Chenopodium, Flora Medica, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, pp. 347-349 : 348

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2819-9661-8339

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6298544

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scientific name

Chenopodium baryosmon
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720. C. baryosmon Röm. and Sch. View in CoL vi. 269. - Salsola foetida Delile descr. de l'Egypte n. 310 - Upper Egypt

An undershrub: Branches spreading rather downy; twigs fasciculate, filiform, whitish, hoary, flattish, about 3-4 inches long, and standing in the room of leaves. Flowers occasionally solitary, hut more frequently arranged in slender leafless spikes, which are very numerous, from 2 to 4 lines long and either spreading or erect Bracts to each flower 2-3, very small, obtuse, downy. Filaments twice or thrice as long as the calyx, with large yellow anthers. Style simple; stigma small bifid. -"An excessively foetid plant: which Mr. Burnett supposed may be used for the same purposes as the last.