Chenopodium aristatum
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Diagnosis
- Almost glabrous, 7-25 cm, richly branched; branches long, spreading to ascending. Leaves almost sessile; blade narrowly lanceolate, entire, up to 5.5 cm, acute to obtuse, green to reddish; margin entire. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, di- or monochasial, with elongated intemodes and ultimate branches transformed into spines; flowers short-stalked. Tepals spreading in fruit. Seed horizontal, suborbicular in outline, 0.8 mm. - [2n=18]