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Latin (Botanical) name: Chenopodium album L.

Family: Chenopodiaceae

Common name: Chenopodium, Chenopode Blanc, Fat hen, Fat-hen, White goosefoot, Rokab el-gamal, Fiss el-kelb (kilaab).

Origin: Egypt

Plant description:

CHENOPODIACEAE Vent. : Leaves flat, broad. Herbs. Fruit surrounded by narrow, almost free perianth-segments, connate at the base only. Flowers small, numerous, in crowded head-like clusters, these spiked or racemed (rarely flowers solitary, then pedicelled).

CHENOPODIUM L. : Flowers very small, perfect, in head-like clusters. Perianth 5-parted, unchanged in fruit. Annual weeds with alternate, petioled, flat leaves. Leaves entire. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, without odo(u)r. CHENOPODIUM ALBUM L.

Leaves dentate or cleft, at least the lower ones. No odo(u)r. Leaves broader ; erect plants. Leaves with a few scattered teeth. Plant green. Leaves elongated. Leaves not 3-lobed, or 3-lobed with broad lobes. Seeds smooth. CHENOPODIUM ALBUM L.

CHENOPODIUM ALBUM L. : Of various appearance, but mostly white-mealy. Lower leaves usually deltoid-ovate with scattered obtuse teeth, the upper ones lanceolate, usually entire. Inflorescence spike-like (f. spicatum Koch), cyme-like (f. cymigerum Koch) or in distant glomerules (f. glomerulatum Rchb.). (Ann.).

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds), annual herb in Upper Egypt.

Similar species:

Chenopodium ambrosioides L. = Chenopodium anthelminticum L.

Chenopodium murale L. = Chenopodium triangulare Forssk.

v. microphyllum Boiss.

Last Update June 8^th, 2002.

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