Common name: Fat Hen
Chenopodium album L. APNI* Synonyms: Chenopodium album subsp. spicatum (Koch) Nyár. APNI*
Chenopodium missouriense Aellen APNI*
Chenopodium probstii Aellen APNI*
Chenopodium zobelii Ludw. & Aellen APNI*
Description: Erect annual to 2.5 m high, stems often striate.
Lower leaves rhombic to ovate, grading into elliptic to linear up the stem, lamina to 10 cm long, variously toothed; petiole about half as long as lamina.
Inflorescences paniculate, the larger ones usually leafy. Flowers bisexual or female. Perianth segments 5, fused in lower half. Stamens 5 or 0.
Seed horizontal, 1–1.5 mm diam., black, smooth or weakly furrowed, falling enclosed by perianth.
Distribution and occurrence:
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *NT, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP, *SWP, *NFWP, *SFWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *W.A. *S.A. *N.T.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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