Cultivated
Annual or biennial herb ; up to 15(-40) cm high , glabrous . Stems erect , sparingly branched , leafy . Leaves alternate , simple ; basal leaves c . 12 x 8 cm , rosette , deltoid-hastate , acute apex , entire or dentate margins , long-petiolate ; upper leaves much smaller , lanceolate or narrowly hastate , the uppermost bract-like . Inflorescences inconspicuous , 80-150 cm high , branching , angular-ribbed , bearing small oblong leaves . Flowers dioicous , yellow-green , 3–4 mm in diameter . Male flowers in panicles ; perianth segments 4(-5) , c . 1 . 5 mm long , oblong-ovate , obtuse ; filaments 4(-5) , c . 2 . 5 mm ; anthers c . 1 mm . Female flowers in numerous axillary clusters of 5-8 ; floral bracts with or without a dorsal spine ; stigmas 1-3 . 5 mm . Fruit c . 3 mm in diameter , not fused with others of the cluster . (Ref . Miller & Cope ; 1996) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Chenopodium oleraceum (L.) E.H.L.Krause
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Spinach
English Spinach
Espinaca
Not used traditionally. However, known cultivated for its leaves which are a common edible vegetable. (Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org).
*https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org *Miller, A.G. & Cope, T.A. (1996). Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra 1: 1-586. Edinburgh university press. ISBN 0748604758. *Hammer, K. Gebauer, J. Al Khanjari, S. Buerkert, A. (2009). Oman at the cross-roads of inter-regional exchange of cultivated plants. Gene Resour Crop Evol (2009) 56:547-560. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008. DOI 10.1007/s10722-008-9385-z. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
