Notes: PZ treatment based on FNA draft treatment seen 3-2001 Recent molecular work suggests Chenopodiaceae may eventually be included within the Amaranthaceae.
FNA4: "Here the genus Dysphania is accepted in an expanded circumscription (S. L. Mosyakin and S. E. Clemants 2002), including all other "glandular" taxa previously treated in Chenopodium subg. Ambrosia A. J. Scott, or segregated in genera such as Roubieva Moquin-Tandon, Teloxys Moquin-Tandon, and Neobotrydium Moldenke. In its traditional circumscription Dysphania has no distinctive characters clearly separating it from those other "glandular" chenopods.
Presence of glandular trichomes seems to be a character of high phylogenetic and taxonomic importance in Chenopodiaceae, in which types of trichomes were used for delimitation of genera, tribes, and even subfamilies. This character seldom fails, even if there are some parallel evolutionary trends present. R. C. Carolin (1983) suggested that Chenopodieae with glandular hairs probably separated from Chenopodieae with bladder hairs even at a more basal (earlier) phylogenetic level than the point of divergence of the latter from Atriplicinae. Chenopodium species with bladder hairs ("mealy chenopods") are probably more closely related to Atriplex and its satellite genera than to "glandular chenopods." P. G. Wilson (1984, 1987) came to the same conclusion.
W. A. Weber (1985) adopted the name Teloxys Moquin-Tandon for the group of "glandular" taxa and transferred several species of "glandular" Chenopodium to Teloxys. The latter was published simultaneously with Roubieva, and thus, if only these two generic names are considered, Weber’s choice should stand. However, the generic name Dysphania predates both Teloxys and Roubieva, and "...[I]f Teloxys, Orthosporum, and Dysphania are amalgamated then the oldest name Dysphania should be adopted" (P. G. Wilson 1987)."
Family Synonyms:
(none)
Literature:
» Judd, W. S. and I. K. Ferguson. 1999. The genera of Chenopodiaceae in the southeastern United States. Harvard Pap. Bot. 4: 365-416.
» Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 1998. An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants. Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 85: 531-553.
» Rodman, J. E. 1990. Centrospermae revisited, part 1. Taxon 39: 383-393.
» Mosyakin, S. L. and S. E. Clemants. 2002. New nomenclatural combinations in Dysphania R. Br. (Chenopodiaceae): taxa occuring in North America. Ukrayins'k Bot. Zhurn., n.s. 59: 380-385.
» Weber, W. A. 1985. The genus Teloxys (Chenopodiaceae). Phytologia 58: 477-478.
» Wahl, H. A. 1952. A preliminary study of the genus Chenopodium in North America. Bartonia 27: 1-46.
» Bassett, I. J. and C. W. Crompton. 1982. The genus Chenopodium in Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany 60: 586-610.
» Mosyakin, S. L. 1993. An outline of a system for Chenopodium L. (species of Europe, North and Central Asia). Ukrayins'k Bot. Zhurn. 50: 71-77.
» Mosyakin, S. L. and S. E. Clemants. 1996. New infrageneric taxa and combinations in Chenopodium L. (Chenopodiaceae). Novon 6: 398-403.
Family treatment authored by Peter F. Zika; last updated 12/17/2008 by David Giblin
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| Atriplex argentea Nutt. var. argentea [FNA4] |
3 |
silver saltbush, silverscale |
| Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt. var. canescens [FNA4, H&C] |
2 |
hoary saltbush |
| Atriplex dioica Raf. [FNA4] |
3 |
thickleaf orach, saline saltbush |
| Atriplex gardneri (Moq.) D. Dietr. var. falcata (M.E. Jones) Welsh [FNA4] |
2 |
saltsage, moundscale, sickle or gardner's saltbush |
| Atriplex gmelinii C.A. Mey. ex Bong. var. gmelinii [FNA4] |
3 |
Gmelin's saltbush or orach |
| Atriplex heterosperma Bunge [FNA4, H&C] |
1 |
Russian atriplex or orach |
| Atriplex hortensis L. [FNA4, H&C] |
1 |
garden orache, French spinach |
| Atriplex littoralis L. [FNA4] |
1 |
narrow-leaved or grassleaf orache |
| Atriplex oblongifolia Waldst. & Kit. [FNA4, not in H&C] |
0 |
oblongleaf orache |
| Atriplex patula L. [FNA4] |
3 |
spear oracle, halberdleaf orache |
| Atriplex prostrata Bouchér ex DC. [FNA4] |
2 |
thin-leaf or hastate orache, fat hen |
| Atriplex rosea L. [FNA4, H&C] |
0 |
red or tumbling orach |
| Atriplex semibaccata R. Br. [FNA4, not in H&C] |
1 |
Australian or creeping saltbush, berry saltbush |
| Atriplex truncata (Torr. ex S. Watson) A. Gray [FNA4, H&C] |
2 |
wedgescale or wedge orache, wedgeleaf orache |
| Bassia hyssopifolia (Pallas) Kuntz [FNA4, H&C] |
2 |
bassia, fivehorn smotherweed |
| Beta vulgaris L. ssp. vulgaris [FNA4] |
0 |
beet, cultivated beet |
| Chenopodium album L. [FNA4, H&C] |
4 |
pigweed, lambsquarters |
| Chenopodium berlandieri Moq. var. zschackii (Murr) Murr [FNA4] |
3 |
pitseed goosefoot |
| Chenopodium capitatum (L.) Ambrosi var. capitatum [FNA4] |
4 |
strawberry blight, Indian paint, Indian ink |
| Chenopodium chenopodioides (L.) Aellen [FNA4, H&C] |
2 |
red or low goosefoot |
| Chenopodium desiccatum A. Nelson [FNA4] |
1 |
narrowleaf goosefoot |
| Chenopodium foliosum (Moench) Asch. [FNA4, H&C] |
1 |
leafy goosefoot |
| Chenopodium fremontii S. Watson [FNA4] |
1 |
Fremont's goosefoot |
| Chenopodium glaucum L. var. salinum (Standl.) B. Boivin [FNA4] |
3 |
Rocky Mountain goosefoot |
| Chenopodium hians Standl. [FNA4] |
1 |
Hians goosefoot |
| Chenopodium leptophyllum (Nutt. ex Moq.) S. Watson [FNA4] |
2 |
narrowleaf goosefoot |
| Chenopodium macrospermum Hook. f. [FNA4, not in H&C] |
4 |
large seed goosefoot |
| Chenopodium murale L. [FNA4, H&C] |
1 |
nettleleaf goosefoot, sowbane, wall goosefoot |
| Chenopodium pratericola Rydb. [FNA4] |
2 |
narrowleaf or desert goosefoot |
| Chenopodium rubrum L. var. humile (Hook.) S. Watson [FNA4] |
3 |
marshland goosefoot |
| Chenopodium rubrum L. var. rubrum [FNA4] |
1 |
red goosefoot |
| Chenopodium ×schulzeanum Murr [FNA4] |
0 |
hybrid goosefoot |
| Chenopodium simplex (Torr.) Raf. [FNA4] |
4 |
maple leaf or giant goosefoot |
| Chenopodium strictum Roth [FNA4, not in H&C] |
5 |
white goosefoot |
| Chenopodium subglabrum (S. Watson) A. Nelson [FNA4] |
1 |
smooth goosefoot |
| Corispermum americanum (Nutt.) Nutt. var. americanum [FNA4] |
1 |
American bugseed |
| Corispermum pacificum Mosyakin [FNA4] |
1 |
Pacific bugseed |
| Corispermum pallidum Mosyakin [FNA4] |
1 |
pale bugseed |
| Corispermum villosum Rydb. [FNA4] |
1 |
hairy bugseed |
| Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants [FNA4] |
2 |
Mexican tea, wormseed |
| Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants [FNA4] |
2 |
|
| Dysphania pumilio (R. Br.) Mosyakin & Clemants [FNA4] |
2 |
clammy goosefoot, small crumbweed |
| Grayia spinosa (Hook.) Moq. [FNA4] |
2 |
spiny hopsage |
| Halogeton glomeratus (M. Bieb.) C.A. Mey. [FNA4, H&C] |
1 |
saltlover, halogeton |
| Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad. ssp. scoparia [FNA4] |
4 |
summer or mock cypress, red belvedere |
| Krascheninnikovia lanata (Pursh) A. Meeuse & A. Smit [FNA4] |
4 |
winterfat |
| Micromonolepis pusilla (Torr. ex S. Watson) Ulbrich [FNA4] |
1 |
red povertyweed |
| Monolepis nuttalliana (Schult.) Greene [FNA4, H&C] |
2 |
Nuttall's povertyweed |
| Nitrophila occidentalis (Moq.) S. Watson [FNA4, H&C] |
0 |
boraxweed |
| Salicornia depressa Standl. [FNA4] |
2 |
low saltwort |
| Salicornia rubra A. Nelson [FNA4] |
1 |
red glasswort or saltwort |
| Salsola tragus L. [FNA4] |
5 |
Russian thistle, tumbleweed |
| Sarcobatus vermiculatus (Hook.) Torr. [FNA4, H&C] |
3 |
greasewood |
| Sarcocornia perennis (Mill.) A.J. Scott [FNA4] |
3 |
|
| Spinacia oleracea L. [FNA4, H&C] |
2 |
spinach |
| Suaeda calceoliformis (Hook.) Moq. [FNA4] |
6 |
horned seablite, pahute weed, paiuteweed, common seablite |
| Suaeda nigra (Raf.) J. F. Macbr. [FNA4, H&C] |
4 |
bushy seablite or seepweed |
| Suaeda occidentalis (S. Watson) S. Watson [FNA4, H&C] |
1 |
western seepweed, slender seablite |