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Latin (Botanical) name: Chenopodium murale L. = Chenopodium triangulare Forssk.

Family: Chenopodiaceae

Common name: Chenopodium, Nettleleaf goosefoot, Nettle-leaf goosefoot, Nettle-leaved goosefoot, Lisaan et-teir (et-thor), Qehaniya, Qeihaniya, Abu’efein (‘efeina), Fiss el-kelb (kilaab) Sontaar, Fatteeh, Shagaret el-motteina, Fisseih, Fosseish, Sakaraan, Sekraan.

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 dentate or cleft, at least the lower ones. No odo(u)r. Leaves broader ; erect plants. Leaves densely and sharply dentate.

CHENOPODIUM MURALE L.  (= chenopodium triangulare Forssk.) : Leaves triangular with tapering base, densely and sharply dentate. Flower-clusters small, globular, in rich cymose panicles. (Ann.). Weed.

v. microphyllum Boiss. : Leaves small with short teeth.

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 album L.

Chenopodium ambrosioides L. = Chenopodium anthelminticum L.

Last Update June 8^th, 2002.

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