Stutzia covillei, the arrow-scale or Coville's orach, is an annual plant in the amaranth family (Amaranthaceae) that grows in dry climates and deserts of the Southwestern United States.[1] Formerly part of genus Atriplex and transferred to Stutzia in 2010.[2]
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Amaranthaceae |
Genus: | Stutzia |
Species: | S. covillei
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Binomial name | |
Stutzia covillei (Standl.) E.H. Zacharias
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References
editWikispecies has information related to Stutzia covillei.
- ^ Welsh, S.L. 2003. Atriplex covillei in Flora of North America Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
- ^ * Zacharias, E.H. & Baldwin, B.G. 2010. A molecular phylogeny of North American Atripliceae (Chenopodiaceae), with implications for floral and photosynthetic pathway evolution. Systematic botany, 35(4): 839-857. doi: 10.1600/036364410X539907. page 852.