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Oxybasis urbica (Upright Goosefoot) |
Oxybasis urbica (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 : |
Oxybasis urbica(L.) S.Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch
Published in Sp. Pl. 218 (1753) | Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.) |
Chenopodium urbicum
L.
Synonym that was used for long in Malta:
Chenopodium urbicum
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) : | Upright Goosefoot, City Goosefoot | Maltese name(s) : | Għobbejra | Status for Malta : | Doubtful origin. It is not yet established if this species is native or not) | 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 : | Jun-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 (4-)15-100 cm, erect, glabrous or very sparingly farinose. Lower leaves up to 14 x 11 cm, deltate to ovate, attenuate into the petiole; margins shallowly dentate to coarsely dentate-lobate above the basal lobes. Panicles with crowded suberect branches. Sepals 5, not keeled. Seeds 0.9-1.3 mm in diameter, horizontal, black, obtusely keeled. |
Chromosome number: |
2n=36 |
Distributional range: |
Most of Europe except the extreme north, but now decreasing |
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, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Czeck Republic and Slovakia, †Da †Fe Switzerland, Spain (incl. Andorra but excl. the Balaerics), Hungary, Italy (excl. Sicily and Sardignia), ex-Jugoslavia, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Russia and former USSR, Sardinia, Sicily and/or Malta, Turkey (European part), Introduced in Britain (excl. Northern Ireland and Channel islands) |
Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(Euro+Med Checklist, 2017) -
Country codes |
Ab(A N) Al Ar Au(A) Be(B) †Be(L) BH dBr Bu By dCa(C T) Co Cs Ct †Fe Ga(F) Ge Gg Gr He Hs(S) Hu It La Le Lt Lu Mk Mo Rf(C CS E K NW S) Rm Sa -Si(M) Si(S) Sk Sl Sr †Su Sy Tu(A E) Uk(K U) [Ag nBr aDa aEs Ge ?Hb(E) aHe nIJ nIr aNo nPo aRf(N) Sk] |
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