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Taxon: Atriplex hortensis L.

Genus: Atriplex
Family: Chenopodiaceae subfamily: Chenopodioideae tribe: Atripliceae. Also placed in: Amaranthaceae
Nomen number: 6017
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:1053. 1753, nom. cons.
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: conserved (nom. cons.) with a conserved type (Vienna ICBN Art. 14.9 & App. IV) through conservation of the genus Atriplex
Name verified on: 11-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-May-2007
Species priority site is: National Arid Land Plant Genetic Resources Unit (PARL).
Accessions: 38 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • garden orache   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • mountain-spinach   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • orache   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • yu qian bo cai   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • arroche des jardins   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Gartenmelde   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • armolas   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • armuelle mole   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • bledos moles   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Distributional range:

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated

      Other:
  • possible origin c. Asia

References:

  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Fu, Y. C. et al. 1977–. Flora intramongolica. (F InnMong)
  • George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
  • Harrington, H. 1954. Manual of the plants of Colorado. (F Colo)
  • Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest. (F Pacif NW)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae. (Atlas Eur)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • McNeill, J. et al. 1983. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Atriplex L. (Chenopodiaceae). Taxon 32:549–555.
  • Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora. (F CalifMunz)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Stewart, R. 1972. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir. (L Pak)
  • Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. (F Eur ed2)
  • Willis, J. H. 1970–1972. A handbook to plants in Victoria. (F VictWillis)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
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Check other databases for Atriplex hortensis L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?6017 (09 February 2010)

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