Chenopodium benthamii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Chenopodium
Species:
C. benthamii
Binomial name
Chenopodium benthamii
Iamonico & Mosyakin
Synonyms
  • Rhagodia latifolia (Benth.) Paul G. Wilson
  • Rhagodia crassifolia var. latifolia Benth.[1]

Chenopodium benthamii (Syn. Rhagodia latifolia) is a species of shrub endemic to midwest Western Australia.

Description

It grows as a shrub from 40 centimetres to two metres high, leathery, elliptical leaves, and panicles of green flowers.[2]

Taxonomy

It was first published as a variety of Rhagodia crassifolia by George Bentham in 1870, based on a specimen collected from Dirk Hartog Island by Allan Cunningham. In 1983 Paul G. Wilson promoted it to specific rank.[3] After phylogenetical research, Fuentes-Bazan et al. (2012) included this species in genus Chenopodium as Chenopodium latifolium.[4] but this name was a later homonym and thus illegitimate. In 2017, Iamonico & Mosyakin replaced it by the name Chenopodium benthamii, in honour of George Bentham.[1]

Two subspecies are currently recognised:[1] the autonym Chenopodium benthamii subsp. benthamii, and Chenopodium benthamii subsp. rectum (Paul G. Wilson) Iamonico & Mosyakin, which was published by Wilson in 1983.[5]

Distribution and habitat

It occurs on coastal sand dunes and limestone cliff in midwest Western Australia, ranging from Geraldton north to the Murchison River.[2]

References

Wikispecies has information related to Chenopodium benthamii.
  1. 1 2 3 Mosyakin, S.L. & Iamonico, D. 2017. Nomenclatural changes in Chenopodium (incl. Rhagodia) (Chenopodiaceae), with considerations on relationships of some Australian taxa and their possible Eurasian relatives. Nuytsia 28: 255–271.
  2. 1 2 "Rhagodia latifolia (Benth.) Paul G.Wilson". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. ↑ "Rhagodia latifolia (Benth.) Paul G.Wilson". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  4. ↑ Susy Fuentes-Bazan, Guilhem Mansion, Thomas Borsch: Towards a species level tree of the globally diverse genus Chenopodium (Chenopodiaceae). In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Vol. 62, No. 1, 2012, ISSN 1055-7903, p. 372, DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.10.006
  5. ↑ Wilson, Paul G. "Chenopodiaceae". Flora of Australia. Vol. IV. p. 172.
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