Chenopodium melanocarpum
Citation:
J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 58:173 (1934).
Synonymy: C. carinatum R. Br. var. melanocarpum J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 46:566 (1922).
Common name: Black crumb-weed.
Description:
Prostrate annual branching from the base, aromatic; stems pilosulose with both slender and sessile to stipitate glandtipped hairs; leaves broadly elliptic, bluntly lobed to entire, glandular-puberulent below over the veins; lamina c. 15 mm long; petiole slender, c. 7 mm long.
Flowers in dense axillary clusters; perianth-segments 5, erect; stamen 0 or 1.
Fruiting perianth bluntly stellate in cross-section, c. 1 mm long, crustaceous, black (or pale-fawn in forma leucocarpum), firmly united below, completely covering the fruit; perianth-segments strongly and bluntly keeled, sparsely and minutely hairy; pericarp diaphanous, adherent; seed erect, lenticular, c. 0.5 mm long.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 260.
Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
This species frequently hybridises with C. pumilio and C. cristatum.
Key to Infraspecific taxa:
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1. Fruiting perianth white |
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forma leucocarpum 10b. |
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1. Fruiting perianth black |
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forma melanocarpum 10a. |
Author:
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