Biology:Oxybasis rubra

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Oxybasis rubra
Chenopodium rubrum.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Oxybasis
Species:
O. rubra
Binomial name
Oxybasis rubra
(L.) S. Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch
Synonyms
  • Chenopodium rubrum L.
  • Atriplex rubra (L.) Crantz
  • Blitum polymorphum var. rubrum (L.) Beck
  • Blitum rubrum (L.) Rchb.
  • Botrys rubra (L.) Lunell
  • Orthospermum rubrum (L.) Opiz
  • Orthosporum rubrum (L.) T. Nees

Oxybasis rubra[1](syn. Chenopodium rubrum), common names red goosefoot or coastblite goosefoot,[2] is a member of the genus Oxybasis, a segregate of Chenopodium (the goosefoots). It is native to North America and Eurasia.[2] It is an annual plant.[3]

Conservation status in the United States

It is listed a special concern and believed extirpated in Connecticut.[4] It is listed as endangered in New Jersey, and as threatened in Maine, New Hampshire, and in New York (state).[5]

Native American ethnobotany

The Goshute Shosone of Utah use the seeds for food.[6] The name of the plant in the Goshute Shoshone language is on’-tǐm-pi-wa-tsǐp, on’-tǐm-pi-wa, on’-tǐm-pi-a-wa or on’-tǐm-pai-wa.[7]

References

  1. Susy Fuentes-Bazan, Pertti Uotila, Thomas Borsch: A novel phylogeny-based generic classification for Chenopodium sensu lato, and a tribal rearrangement of Chenopodioideae (Chenopodiaceae). In: Willdenowia. Vol. 42, No. 1, 2012, p. 15-16.
  2. 2.0 2.1 {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Oxybasis rubra | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?466036 | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = 2013-07-05 }}
  3. "Plants Profile for Chenopodium rubrum (red goosefoot)". https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CHRU. 
  4. "Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015". State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved 28 January 2018. (Note: This list is newer than the one used by plants.usda.gov and is more up-to-date.)
  5. "Plants Profile for Chenopodium rubrum (red goosefoot)". https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CHRU. 
  6. Chamberlin, Ralph V., 1911, The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah, Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405., page 366
  7. Chamberlin, Ralph Vary (1911). "The Ethno-botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah". Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association Vol II, Part 5. http://www.swsbm.com/Ethnobotany/Ethnobotan_of_Gosiute.pdf. Retrieved 2007-11-12. [yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1477103 entry