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Published In: Species Plantarum 2: 1053. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Type: Type: Tataria, Orenburg steppe, Hortus Sicc. Cliff. (BM). McNeill et al. in Taxon 32: 552. 1983.
Distribution: Distribution: C. and S. Europe, C. Asia , introduced or cultivated
Comment/Acknowledgements: Cultivated in Hunza and Kashmir for the green leaves as a vegetable in spring (Stewart, l.c.).
Map Location: B-8 Kashmir: Islamabad, G. L. C. Fuller 876 (K).

 

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Annual, 60-150 cm tall, erect, branched. Leaves alternate, petiolate, triangular, broadly hastate at base, entire or more rarely toothed, mostly taper-tipped, green on both sides. Flowers in spikes disposed in a leafless panicle; staminate 5-merous; pistillate of 2 sorts, some ebracteolate with a 5-partite perianth and without bracteoles, others without perianth but with a pair of bracteoles, these rounded-oval, entire, free; seeds of the former type horizontal, convex, black, lustrous, 1-2 mm in diameter, those of the latter vertical, flat, olivaceous brown, dull, 3-4 mm in diameter.
 
 
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