Species Atriplex vestita
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Etymology of Atriplex:
A name used by Pliny.
Etymology of vestita:
From the Latin vestitus = ‘clad’ or 'clothed'. This typically refers to having meany leaves down the length of the branches or to the leaves themselves being clothed in hair
Scientific name:
Atriplex vestita (Thunb.) Aellen
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Unknown
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Synonym status:
Monoecious, silvery mealy subshrub to 60 cm. Leaves oblanceolate. Flowers clustered in elongate spikes; fruiting bracts, subrotund, softly papery, glabrescent and warty, 10--15 mm long. Mainly Aug.--Dec. Saline flats, streambanks, NW, SW, AP, KM, SE (Namibia to Uitenhage).
Observations of Taxon
Atriplex vestita var. appendiculata
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Atriplex vestita
Name of observer:
Annelise Le Roux and Zelda Wahl (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Atriplex vestita
Name of observer:
Katryn van Heerden (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown