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Suckleya
Family:
Amaranthaceae
Greg Goodwin
FNA
Resources
Chu Gelin in Flora of North America (vol. 4)
Herbs,
annual, monoecious.
Stems
prostrate or ascending, diffusely branched, terete, not jointed or armed, not fleshy.
Leaves
alternate, petiolate; blade rhombic-ovate to suborbicular, base abruptly short-cuneate, margins repand-dentate, apex rounded or acute, sparsely covered with inflated unicellular trichomes (scurfy when dry).
Inflorescences
staminate and pistillate flowers in mixed clusters in axils of nearly all leaves.
Staminate flowers:
perianth segments usually 4; stamens usually 4; rudimentary ovary present.
Pistillate flowers:
perianth segments becoming marginally connate, 4-lobed; stigmas 2, filiform.
Fruits
utricles, enclosed by enlarged, compressed perianth; pericarp appressed to seed, thinly membranous.
Seeds
vertical, ovate to triangular-ovate; seed coat reddish brown, thick, membranous; embryo subannular, surrounding perisperm.
Suckleya suckleyana
Map not
Available