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Herbarium specimen: Chenopodium polyspermum

Taxon:Chenopodiaceae: Chenopodium polyspermum L. ("Many-seeded Goosefoot")
Collected by:Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges
Collection date:1953
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Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Chenopodium polyspermum herbarium specimen collected in 1953 by Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges.
collector's number:1621
fruits/flowers:seeds/fruits
notes:Leaves entire, acute lower ones occasionally toothed at base procumbent spreading much branched at base. Flowers in auxiliary leaf less racemes calyx segments not covering fruit. Fruit spiny, dark brown.
Filing note:Chenopodium

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Documented by hallucigenia on 29th November 2011.

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