Blitum L., Sp. Pl.: 4 (1753)

Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Liu, Pei-Liang & Kushunina, Maria, 2019, Taxonomic revision of Chenopodiaceae in Himalaya and Tibet, PhytoKeys 116, pp. 1-141 : 46-47

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Blitum L., Sp. Pl.: 4 (1753)
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6. Blitum L., Sp. Pl.: 4 (1753)

Blitum L., Sp. Pl.: 4 (1753). Lectotype (designated by Britton and Brown 1913): Blitum capitatum L.

= Morocarpus Boehmer in Ludwig, Def. Gen. Pl., ed. 3: 385 (1760);

= Anserina Dumort., Fl. Belg.: 21 (1827); Type: Anserina bonus-henricus (L.) Dumort. (≡ Blitum bonus-henricus (L.) Reichenb.).

= Monolepis Schrad., Ind. Sem. Hort. Gotting.: 4 (1830). Type: Monolepis trifida Schrad., Ind. Sem. Hort. Gotting.: 4 (1830) = Monolepis nuttalliana (Schult.) Green;

= Agathophytum Moq., Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 2(1): 291 (1834). Type: Agathophytum bonus-henricus (L.) Moq. (≡ Blitum bonus-henricus );

= Scleroblitum Ulbr. in Engler & Harms, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 16c: 495 (1934). Type: Scleroblitum atriplicinum (F.Muell.) Ulbr. (≡ Blitum atriplicinum F.Muell.).

Description.

Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or covered with bladder hairs (scattered glandular hairs may be present). Leaves long-petiolate with triangular, hastate or rhombic blades; basal leaves often in a rosette. Inflorescences leafy or aphyllous in the upper part. Flowers in dense glomerules, bisexual or sometimes unisexual. Perianth of 1-5 free or insignificantly concrescent segments or perianth reduced, green, but sometimes fleshy and red or indurated in the fruiting stage. Stamens 1-5, usually equalling the perianth segments. Stigmas 2-3. Fruits with 1-2(3)-layered, smooth or mamillate pericarp, usually tightly adjoining the seed coat. Seed round or ovoid, red or reddish-black, without keel or with 2 blunt keels. Seed surface smooth or alveolate; testa cells without stalactites, sometimes with hair-like outgrowths. Seed embryo horizontally or vertically orientated or sometimes both embryo positions present on an individual (spatial heterospermy).

Approximately 14 species worldwide.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Chenopodiacea

Loc

Blitum L., Sp. Pl.: 4 (1753)

Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Liu, Pei-Liang & Kushunina, Maria 2019
2019
Loc

Scleroblitum

Ulbrich 1934
1934
Loc

Scleroblitum atriplicinum

Ulbr 1934
1934
Loc

Monolepis nuttalliana

Greene 1891
1891
Loc

Agathophytum bonus-henricus

Moq 1834
1834
Loc

Monolepis trifida

Schrader 1830
1830
Loc

Anserina bonus-henricus

Dum 1827
1827
Loc

Blitum

L., Sp. Pl.: 4 1753
1753