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Chenopodiastrum murale (Nettle-leaved Goosefoot) |
Chenopodiastrum murale (AMARANTHACEAE.)
Images for this profile are taken from the Maltese Islands at or after year 2000. |
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| Nomenclature and Basic Information |
Species name : |
Chenopodiastrum murale (L.) S.Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch
Published in Sp. Pl. 219 (1753) | Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.) |
Chenopodium murale
L.
Synonym that was used for long in Malta:
Chenopodium murale
L.
Full list of synonyms :
[Euro+Med]
[PlantList]
[IPNI]
[POWO]
[Catalogue of Life ]
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Plant Family : | Amaranthaceae
Juss. (The Amaranth Family)
42 species from the Amaranthaceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands. | English name(s) : | Nettle-leaved Goosefoot | Maltese name(s) : | Għobbejra ħadra | Status for Malta : | Indigenous. Present on the Maltese islands before man | Frequency : | Very Common
Common Frequent Scarce Rare
Very rare Extinct
| Growth form : |
Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: THEROPHYTE (annuals)
Germination [info]: Dicotyledon | Legal Protection [link]: | Not Protected by Law (LN200/2011 or LN311/2006) | Red List (1989) : | Not listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands | Flowering Time : | Mar-Nov | Colour of Flowers: | Inconspicuous |
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| Species Description and Distribution |
Habitat in Europe: |
Data will be available in the next update of this website. |
Preferred habitat in Malta: |
Wasteground and disturbed sites especially beside agricultural areas |
Botanical Description: |
Annual up to 90 cm, erect or spreading, usually much-branched, more or less farinose. Leaves usually rhombic-ovate and coarsely dentate, not 3-lobed. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, divaricately branched, leafy. Sepals 5, bluntly keeled above. Seeds 1.2-1.5 mm in diameter, black, horizontal, acutely margined; pericarp adherent; testa closely and minutely pitted. |
Chromosome number: |
2n=18 |
Distributional range: |
S., W. & C. Europe, extending to C. Sweden and E. Ukraine, but doubtfully native in much of the north |
Distributional map in Europe
and the Mediterranean region (2018):
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Occurrences in Europe.
(from Flora Europaea pre year 1993): |
Albania, Austria and Liechtenstein, the Azores, Belgium, the Balaeric Islands, Britain (excl. Northern Ireland and Channel islands), Bulgaria, Corse, Crete, Czeck Republic and Slovakia, Denmark, France (incl. Monaco and Channel Islands but excluding Corse), Germany, Greece, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain (incl. Andorra but excl. the Balaerics), Hungary, Italy (excl. Sicily and Sardignia), ex-Jugoslavia, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Russia and former USSR,B C W K Sardinia, Sicily and/or Malta, Sweden, Turkey (European part) |
Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(Euro+Med Checklist, 2017) -
Country codes |
Ab(A) AE Ag Al Ar Au(A L) Az(C F G J L M P S T) Be(B) †Be(L) BH Bl(I M N) Br Bu By dCa(F H) Cg Co Cr Cs Ct Cy Da Eg dGa(C) Ga(F) Ge Gg Gr He Ho Hs(G S) Hu Ir It Jo Le Li Lu Ma Md(D M P) Mk Mo Rf(CS) Rm Sa Si(M S) Sl Sn Sr Su Sy Tn Tu(A E) Uk(K U) [nAz(C F G J L M P S T) dCa(C F G H L P T) Es aFe aHb(E) nHb(N) La Lt aNo nPo -Rf(C) Rf(K NW) aRf(N) Sk] |
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